Famous quotes containing the words tortoise and/or shells:
“Deathlessness should be arrived at in a ... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
“Sing there upon the beach
Till alls beyond deaths reach,
And empty shells reply
That all things flourish.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)