25 quotes about turtles follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!

We can't release all of the information. There's still concerns about the bog turtles being impacted by people wanting to see them, people wanting to take them.

Mark Tudor

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason. In his great work on _Divergent Lines of Racial Evolution_, the learned Professor Brayfugle argues from the prevalence of this gesture -- the shrug -- among Frenchmen, that they are descended from turtles and it is simply a survival of the habit of retracing the head inside the shell. It is with reluctance .

Ambrose Bierce

I believe the decision by the WTO today is a death blow for sea turtles.

Todd Steiner

They feed them, clean the tanks, prepare the food -- even weigh and measure them. They watch them grow from thumbnail-size to full-size turtles.

Kathleen Wagner

Everybody loves to talk about sea turtles.

Brandon Barton

The trees serve as cover to the ducks, frogs and turtles. They will break down overtime anyway.

David Mcdermott

We went out on the Harris chain. They got some wildlife ideas, photos of turtles and birds and we were lucky enough to catch a fish. Neither one of them caught one, but I have invited them to go fishing with me later on, hopefully, on a pleasure trip.

Stephen Browning

Loggerheads spend a long time out at sea, but green turtles don't spend as long, maybe two or three years in this open-ocean existence.

Blair Witherington

Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.

Charles A. Jaffe

I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.

Amy Weber

Now, I know everyone wants to see turtles. What else?

Lyle Thomas

Unfortunately, this decision goes far beyond just a death warrant for sea turtles. The precedent this decision creates puts all of our environmental protections that may come into conflict with so-called free trade police at risk.

Todd Steiner

The show was really cool. I didn't expect it to be like that. I didn't expect to see animals there-birds and turtles and fish.

Patrick Riley

Our children are now moved along from the cartoon violence in 'Ninja Turtles' to the cold-blooded murder in 'The Matrix Reloaded' in just a few short years.

Daphne White

Researchers identify turtles by the different patterns on the turtle's shell. It is like a fingerprint - different on every one.

Patrick Thompson

As much as animals like elephants are currently under threat in Central Africa, whales, manatees and turtles, to name a few, are probably in far more dire peril -- and almost nobody knows.

Peter Walsh

We've got a young team and we're hoping to come on. They're getting better, but we want to bring them up with warp speed, and it's like a turtle's pace.

Pat Mcnamara

I think there is some value in people raising little turtles if it gets them interested in reptiles. But we don't need them raising red-eared turtles if they are subsequently released in nature.

Dale Jackson

The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Of course, we probably should have left them where they were, ... But when we'd bring them home, they'd lay eggs, and next thing you know we'd have baby turtles running around. I love nature and wildlife, and it's always been a part of my family.

Scott Tucker

My Dad used to bring home turtles he found on construction sites, ... I fell in love with turtles and snakes, and couldn't get enough of it.

Scott Tucker

If you look at the guys wearing this armor, they look like turtles.

John Pike

Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.

Doris Lilly

Sea turtles are very global, very migratory. They utilize habitat in many locations. This proves that we should have people working to protect coastal areas in general, not just the sub-tropical nesting areas of sea turtles.

Dan Evans

Like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, this is another television-generated brand with the message that the best way to solve problems is through violence.

Daphne White