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Tortoises Quotes

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

"Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

I`m the tortoise in the race, but I`m a joyful tortoise.

"The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, Transcript". www.msnbc.com. December 31, 2015.

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.10, Univ of California Press

We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.

"Buffett Meets the Press". Interview with Rick Casterline, www.fool.com. June 29, 2006.

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.255

One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.

Clement Greenberg (1961). “Hofmann: twelve color plates, twenty-one black and white illustrations”

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.261, Dial Press