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"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
Cute
Kissing
Turtles
"Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help."
Alex Haley
Funny
Animal
Turtles
"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
Home
West Indies
Turtles
""The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer."
Alphonsus Liguori
Prayer
Flower
Turtles
"A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle."
Ambrose Bierce
Turtles
Attachment
Long
"Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears."
Amy Tan
Turtles
Joy
Sorrow
"I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree]."
Davy Crockett
Horse
Turtles
Ohio
"If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle"
Arthur Golden
Mother
Turtles
Agreement
"But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve."
Arthur Miller
Turtles
Doe
Bud
"Turtles are greater than baby nephews, because it's ok to drop a turtle."
Demetri Martin
Baby
Turtles
Nephew
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