58 Quotes About Turtles

  • Author Bess Truman
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    I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.

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  • Author Kurt Vonnegut
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    Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

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  • Author Ajahn Chah
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    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.

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