Happy Welt-Schildkröten-Tag! Happy World Turtle Day!

Wer ist eigentlich dieser Achill, fragte die Schildkröte und fraß weiter an ihrem Salatblatt.
Arnfrid Astel

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

Das kluge Reden hat gar keinen Wert, gar keinen. Man kommt nur von sich selber weg. Von sich selber wegkommen ist Sünde. Man muß sich in sich selber völlig verkriechen können wie eine Schildkröte.
Hermann Hesse

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
Alex Haley

Schildkröten können mehr über die Straßen erzählen als Hasen.
Khalil Gibran

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

Zwei Schildkröten: 
Du, die Menschen sind so schnell, die holen wir niemals mehr ein. Die werden sicher als erste ins Ziel kommen. Wart's ab.
Karl Talnop 

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant

Die Liebe gleicht dem Wesen einer Schildkröte, sie benötigt nur sehr wenig, kennt keine Hektik und ruht in sich selbst mit einer beglückenden Zufriedenheit.
Karl Talnop 

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Schildkröten pflegen, heißt eine Menge an Liebe, Geduld, Ausdauer und Pflege einsetzen, um lediglich das Gefühl zu erhalten, es ginge den Tieren gut.
Ignatz A. Basile

I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.'
Demetri Martin

Schildkröten können dir mehr über den Weg erzählen als Hasen.
chinesisches Sprichwort

Being on a successful show is kind of like being a sea turtle. Every year, sea turtles lay hundreds and hundreds of eggs, but only a few manage to survive and mature. It's the same with TV pilots. There are so many great ideas, but for whatever reason only the lucky ones get picked up.
Keiko Agena

All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.
John Hersey

After 'Divergent,' I got a job rewriting a sci-fi script at Paramount. I think they really liked what I did, so I got a call saying, 'We're about to shoot 'Ninja Turtles' in three or four months; do you wanna come in and do a little work on the script?' That was the beginning of a many-month 'Ninja Turtle' odyssey.
Evan Daugherty

It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas.
Aaron Spelling

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

When I come to Chicago, I gorge myself. I get off the plane and start with Gene and Jude's for two hot dogs with everything, swing by The Fudge Pot for a taffy apple and a turtle, chocolate clusters at Sarah's Pastries and Candies and steak at Smith and Wollensky. I find time for Gino's pizza within the next 12 hours.
James Belushi

And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
Eddie Campbell

'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.
Will Hobbs

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

Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I am today. They got me into martial arts, meditation, surfing, skateboarding; big time influence on who I am today.
Greg Cipes

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.
Paul Giamatti

I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
Garry Shandling

Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
Natalie Gulbis

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.
Bode Miller

I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.
Khaled Hosseini

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

Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.
Brian P. Cleary

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.
Brian Skerry