Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.
I am a huge animal lover. Growing up, my mother and I rescued countless animals - dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, even a turtle. I have been accused of caring more about animals than I do about people.
Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move.
Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
Turtle makes all men equal.
It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.
Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!
You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!
All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle
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.
Turtles are greater than baby nephews, because it's ok to drop a turtle.
You will not mistake the newspaperman - looks like a big turtle - published a letter meant to embarrass me.
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!
No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!
My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.
I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life - the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted.
Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?!
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
My spirit animal. . . probably like a turtle, because I have no concept of time.
If you're making yourself vulnerable in your writing, then they know where to hurt you, which is extra fun. I had to develop coping mechanisms on the fly, and slowly it got better, to the point where now I barely notice. I'm like an old, gnarly turtle now. The interaction with the troll who impersonated my dad made me start to understand who these people are, and I figured out, in a really profound way, that happy people don't do this. It's hard to feel afraid of someone when you pity them.
