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All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out. -- Lou Gerstner
You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something. -- Paul Giamatti
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. -- James Bryant Conant
Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out. -- James Bryant Conant
And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there. -- Eddie Campbell
I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point. -- Gloria Estefan
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all. -- Harvey Mackay
And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be. -- Dr. Seuss
Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog -- Li Ching-Yuen
Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. -- Alex Haley
Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar. -- Joel Hodgson
The beach is in our blood. Everyone in our family returns to the beach instinctively, just like the sea turtles. -- Sandy Archibald
Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision. -- Lewis Carroll
Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife -- John Cornyn
Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you. -- Ajahn Chah
I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone. -- Bobby Darin
It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas. -- Aaron Spelling
I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session. -- Garry Shandling
But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists who want to remove their shells so that they can wire electrodes to the turtles' skin in order to monitor their increasing terror at the loss of their shells. -- Mary Gaitskill
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education. -- Luther Burbank
But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one too. C'mon, Lennie, she used to say to me at least ten times a day. C'mon Len. And that makes me feel better, like it's her life rather than her death that is now teaching me how to be, who to be. -- Jandy Nelson
We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did. -- John Green
Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh? -- Harper Lee
Turtles are greater than baby nephews, because it's ok to drop a turtle. -- Demetri Martin
I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a big part of my childhood. -- Megan Fox
Maybe. Although I doubt most Shadowhunters get a tattoo of Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their left shoulder. -- Cassandra Clare
I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' -- Maggie Grace
Larry's zombie bag was a nearly virulent green with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it. I was almost afraid to ask what his vampire bag looked like. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
When I first heard of it, I thought it was a horror film. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' is such a strange name. I wasn't into the comic books at all. -- Judith Hoag
Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans. -- James Lee
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? -- Harper Lee
I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well. -- Matt Smith
Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well. -- Linus Torvalds
My favorite superheroes when I was younger were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and they still are. Simply because they rule and you've got 4 different personalities to choose from depending on your mood...And they're huge human-turtles!! -- Jason Reeves
I grew up watching 'Power Rangers,' 'Ninja Turtles', 'Batman.' You name it, I was a huge fan. And that's what I used to play with my friends. We would have the masks and the swords and pretend we had super powers. -- Robbie Amell
My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building. -- Russell Smith
Batman Begins' came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly... I can't tell you how many movies I was pitched where it was, 'We want to do what you did with 'Batman' but with 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' or whatever. -- David S. Goyer
I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.' -- Taran Killam
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Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles. -- Doris Lilly
You can't build a substantial V out of turtles! -- Dr. Seuss
I wanna put stickers on turtles... I don't know why. -- Demetri Martin
The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man. -- William Shakespeare
Holy sea turtles!" - Arabella Valli, The Equinox (Book Two of the Summer Solstice Series) -- K.K. Allen
The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles. -- Natalie Dormer
Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak. -- Etgar Keret
I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico. -- Tamara Feldman
I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles. -- Amy Weber
If it makes Tom Cruise happy, I don't care if he prays to turtles, ... And I don't think anybody else should. -- Madonna Ciccone
I respect Shigeru Miyamoto, so there will be a lot of mushrooms in Metal Gear Solid 3. But you cannot eat turtles. -- Hideo Kojima
The predicament of a person in a restaurant who is unable to determine his or her designated restroom (e.g., turtles and tortoises). -- Rich Hall
I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.' -- Angela Kinsey
You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them. -- Joseph Kanon
I love traveling and seeing new things, learning the histories of different cultures. But I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos to see the giant turtles. -- Mikaela Shiffrin
What did turtles evolve from? Really, I want to know. And for God's sake, don't say lizards, because turtles are nothing like lizards. They could not be more different. -- Gwen Stefani
Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wrote about dragons, wizards, turtles, witches, time-travelling monks, and suitcases with legs. -- Nick Harkaway
Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.. -- Charles Jaffe
Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too. -- Ernest Hemingway
Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you. -- Charlie Munger
Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us... -- H. L. Mencken
Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky. -- Lee Trevino
Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would be yattering streams of obscenities between chain-smoker gasps of breath. -- Christopher Moore

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