Turtle Quotations

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

'Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that.

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.

I've been exploring different options for when I'm done skiing. I have the Turtle Ridge Foundation, which is helping a bunch of worthy causes around the Northeast. I've also started SkiSpace, which is an online social network that basically deals with all things based around any snow sport.

On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well as the green turtle, Ridley sea turtle, leatherback turtle and loggerhead turtle. Four mammals are considered endangered: the Hawaiian hoary bat; the kohola, or humpback whale; the sperm whale; and the endemic Hawaiian monk seal.

Kneeling on the sea bottom in a place known as Tiger Beach, I watched a 12-foot- long female tiger shark cruise over the turtle grass with three silver bar jacks swimming in front of her nose.

We look forward to planting the seeds necessary for us to grow and build not only a self-sustaining economy, but also our most valuable resource: the members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.

When they leave the program, when they turn 18, The Haven will match up to $1,000 of whatever they save. Then, at the end of 12 months of the Turning Point program with Turtle Nest, whatever they've been able to save during that 12-month period, our donors will match up to $2,500.

Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,"" the Mock Turtle replied, ""and then the different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision

I will not go near the kindergarten turtle

It is a recipe only in the sense that 'catch a turtle' is the recipe for turtle soup,

Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. 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.

Two years ago I created Painted Turtle Camp in Lake Hughes, California. Each week the summer camp welcomes children with a different disease.

We really need to take a hard look at turtle sales in this country and see what is being exported and what pressure that is putting on the populations.

That was nice for Matt (Hall) and Turtle Bay to think of me and let me play in my first year as a senior.

There have been some 30-inchers right in the middle of Turtle Bay in the sand holes. The best baits have been cut mullet and cut sardines.

Eastern Maine Electric was the first utility in the state to use widespread automated meter reading. The Turtle meter reading system was funded by research dollars from co-ops like EMEC. Now it's also used by investor-owned utilities like Maine Public Service as well. By improving a utility's efficiency, this technology saves energy users money.

Turtle came in and did a great job for us.

When we started this project, it was meant to improve safety. It was not meant to help develop Turtle Bay.

Thank you for playing. All contestants receive a supply of Turtle Wax car polish. Join us next time.

One group found a bunch of golf balls piled up in a group. Another group found a small (live) turtle and someone else found bones. They turned out to be bones from a hard-head catfish.

A turtle doesn't get onto a fence post by itself -- it has a lot of help. I've had a lot of opportunities, and I'm still learning from them.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out

You're talking about neighborhood schools on one hand and about pulling out two of our neighborhood schools ... on the other. That's why we want to keep a neighborhood school in Turtle Creek.

Save when at noon his paunch grew mutinous / For a plate of turtle green and glutinous.

It's January now, and it is a tight deadline, but marine turtle nesting is not negotiable.

I had enough of both of those men arguing and shouting each other down. Everyone else present had enough as well. But the next thing you know, Tony throws a red turtle shell at Jon and hit him hard in the head.

The turtle makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

It was hard to find a spot in the gym at Turtle Bay resort.

APOSTATE, n. A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

That's a good idea! Now, what do you think I should get for my turtle friend here, Denver?

When all alone, a turtle will gracefully swim in the ocean, when all alone, a person will gracefully swim alone. The quiet feeling you get from a turtle reflects how a person can feel alone, until someone reaches out a hand.

It's like they said let's put a Post-it note on a turtle and then sit back and say we did our duty.

If he sees a little turtle walking across the street, he'll stop in the middle of the road, get out, pick the turtle up and help it across the road,

I know up on the top you are seeing great sights, but down at the bottom we, too, should have rights. "Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories