Quotes About Tortoise

Am cugetat c? nici chiar în limbajele umane nu exist? propoziÈ›ie care s? nu implice universul întreg; a spune tigrul înseamn? a spune tigrii care l-au z?mislit, cerbii È™i È›estoasele pe care el le-a devorat, p??unea din care s-au hr?nit cerbii, p?mântul care a fost maic? a p??unii, cerul care a dat lumin? p?mântului.

Am cugetat c? nici chiar în limbajele umane nu exist? propoziÈ›ie care s? nu implice universul întreg; a spune tigrul înseamn? a spune tigrii care l-au z?mislit, cerbii È™i È›estoasele pe care el le-a devorat, p??unea din care s-au hr?nit cerbii, p?mântul care a fost maic? a p??unii, cerul care a dat lumin? p?mântului.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. Goes to sleep all winter and doesn't eat anything more than grass as far as I know, to live all the summer. Not an interesting life perhaps, but a very peaceful one.

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel there is only one home to the life of a tortoise there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?

Daughter of the rock and the gray sea you fill all hearts with triumph, tortoise shell of the sea.

A tortoise's shell is a house of the poverty and if the tortoise is taken to the wealthy town, it will still be living in its house of poverty.

Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Axiomatically, hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. The propaganda goes all the other way, but only because it is the tortoise who is in need of consolation. Like the meek who are going to inherit the earth.

When we were little, the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, we went to school in the sea. 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!

It was a small tortoise with Julia's initials set in diamonds in the living shell, and this slightly obscene object, now slipping impotently on the polished boards, now striding across the card-table, now lumbering over a rug, now withdrawn at a touch, now stretching its neck and swaying its withered, antediluvian head, became a memorable part of the evening, one of those needlehooks of experience which catch the attention when larger matters are at stake.

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

INSTEAD OF having brothers and sisters to grow up with in India, I had as my companions an odd assortment of pets, which included a monkey, a tortoise, a python and a Great Indian Hornbill.

Many parks in Florida have information kiosks with colorful enamel signs showing the special flora and fauna in the park. The gopher tortoise, the scrub jay, the indigo snake. At no park with an indigo snake on its kiosk signs could I find an indigo.

I guess you could say I'm a closeted animal person, because a lot of my life I did it in secrecy. I was always fascinated with exotic animals, particularly reptiles, from the age of 6 when I got a pet tortoise.

Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world.

'A Death in the Gunj' is set in 1979 and we had to mute a joke that referred to Indira Gandhi. The censors also wouldn't allow the tortoise that some of the characters talk about to be called Kalidas because it's the name of a respected poet.

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

An upturned tortoise is the ninth most pathetic thing in the entire multiverse.

In there?' She nodded. 'You want us to go into the tortoise?' Another nod. 'It's alive.' Another nod.

Is the turtle sick?" I asked to needle them. Maria gave me a look sharp enough to draw blood. "Hold your tongue, evil spawn." There's the old harpy I know. All is right with the world.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.