Snail Quotes
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If we were fossils of two snails caught in a rock for millions of years.
Would we know we were together?
Natasha Tsakos
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The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.
Freya Stark
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An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.
William Cowper
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Slugs, despite what one might think, given their naked look, do not predate snails on the evolutionary tree but were once snails that evolved over time to be shellless.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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The snail and I were both living in altered landscapes not of our choosing; I figured we shared a sense of loss and displacement.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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A wife, domestic, good, and pure,
Like snail, should keep within her door;
But not, like snail, with silver track,
Place all her wealth upon her back.
Walsham How