Top 237 Turtle Doves Quotes & Sayings

Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.

Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green turtle is from the mock turtle.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle's, and of a rabbit, rabbit's. But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

I say love, and the world populates itself with doves.

A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

A turtle does come in it's own bowl

I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text.

I kind of think that he [Prince] was pleased because he allowed [When Doves Cry] to be done.

It's often said that doves provide valuable practice for duck season, but this strikes me as upside down. With their tiny profiles, wicked speed, and fighter-plane acrobatics, doves are more difficult to take down.

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

We could all be in a turtle's dream, in outer space!

And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

Turtle makes all men equal.

I do not mean for one second to suggest that 'White Doves at Morning' was written with a movie deal in mind. Certainly not.

No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!

Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.

Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.

Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.

I wanna get rich enough in life that I can afford to release a dozen doves every time I walk into a room. You know people would be like, 'Did you see that guy come out of the bathroom? The one with doves, it was beautiful.'

My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.

Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die

I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls.

The sign said 'The Green Turtle, Chelonia myadas, is the source of turtle soup....' I am the source of William G. soup if it comes to that. Everyone is the source of his or her kind of soup. In a town as big as London, that's a lot of soup walking around.

'Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that.

I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon.

Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight, copper dirt, moon-everything belonged to the men who had the guns. . . . So you protected yourself and loved small. . . . A woman, a child, a brother-a big love like that would split you wide open in Alfred, Georgia. . . . To get to a place where you could love anything you chose-not to need permission for desire-well now, that was freedom

God ultimately raises up leaders for one primary reason: His glory. He shows His power in our weakness. He demonstrates His wisdom in our folly. We are all like a turtle on a fence post. If you walk by a fence post and see a turtle on top of it, then you know someone came by and put it there. In the same way, God gives leadership according to His good pleasure.

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked. We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock Turtle angrily; 'really you are very dull!' You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth.

Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?!

Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

The turtle couldn't help us.

An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting.

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.

My spirit animal... probably like a turtle, because I have no concept of time.

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down

If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle

The more bombers the less room for doves of peace.

I had a turtle that I called Kalidas.

Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.

No doves come from ravens’ eggs

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well as the green turtle, Ridley sea turtle, leatherback turtle and loggerhead turtle. Four mammals are considered endangered: the Hawaiian hoary bat; the kohola, or humpback whale; the sperm whale; and the endemic Hawaiian monk seal.

Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem. “Where you ever a turtle, huh?

Turtle has just one plan at a time, and every cell buys into it.

Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time tells the story of a cosmologist whose speech is interrupted by a little old lady who informs him that the universe rests on the back of a turtle. Ah, yes, madame, the scientist replies, but what does the turtle rest on? The old lady shoots back: You can't trick me, young man. It's nothing but turtles, turtles, turtles, all the way down.

One day, I want to get rich enough so that every time I walk into a room I can release a dozen doves.