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

• Sleepy turtles never catch up with the sunrise.
  - Jamaican Proverb

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

• Trusting in wealth is like looking for feathers on turtles.
  - Senegalese Proverb

• All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle.
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

This post is part of Turtle Blogathon 2009, where we stayed up for 24-straight-hours to blog about turtles. To make a donation, please visit the Donations page. Posts written during the Turtle Blogathon are filed in the Turtle Blogathon 2009 category.

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