Quotes About Slow

If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.

The mind demands pattern and form, which build up slowly and require repeated passes, with each pass going deeper and probing further.

'Tis a month before the month of May,And the Spring comes slowly up this way.

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

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

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

Take more time, cover less ground.

There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

I like southern girls. They talk so slow that by the time they say no, I made it already.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

Summer specializes in time, slows it down almost to dream.

On slow news days, newspaper editors pulled the Oatman drama out of storage and ran it as a novelty item, often in the Southwest, sometimes in multiple parts.

We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.

My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute.

Not so fast. Take your time! Taste the food!

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

I love when it snows it slows everything down.

A settled and practical people are distinctly in favor of heavy relaxations, placid prolixities, slow comforts.

I love slow cooker recipes - especially during the fall.

There is no question that the recovery from the global recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis has been unusually lengthy and anemic.

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think now, as I thought then, that it's better to die violently and not too old. People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by definition, means something slow, smelly and painful

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

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

To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.