Turtle Quotes

Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite.

– Craig Brown

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

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

– Bill Copeland

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

– Bruce Feiler

Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.

– Alice Morse Earle

‘The Green Turtle’ wasn’t all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity.

– Gene Luen Yang

And when you look at the Turtle’s movie there is something there, definitely something there.

– Eddie Campbell

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

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

– Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Vernon Fenwick. He’s a cameraman at Channel 6 – he’s April O’Neil’s cameraman – and Vernon is a character who is from the ‘Turtle’ mythology.

– Will Arnett

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters – raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn’t any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

– Tom Stoppard