Snail Quotes

“Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

“James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.”
― A.A. Milne

“Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.”
― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“A hibernating snail is not necessarily dead”
― Messaoud Mohammed

“The intriguing placidity from the slothful pace of a snail is truly very peaceful. Our world is in need of this calmness to pacify itself”
― Munia Khan

“Snails do not despair for having short legs, but rejoice for being able to travel long distances in spite of them.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Don’t tell anyone I said it?"
I smiled. "I'll be quiet as a buttered snail sneaking through a Frenchman’s kitchen.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight

“A snail hides in his shell.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

“if i hide i will get stepped on. so i have learned to face my fears head on.”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“If humans can have a sweet and smooth tongue like that of a snail, ‘bundles’ and ‘bunches’ of troubles will either ‘evaporate’ or ‘coagulate’.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“The afternoon light glistened onto the green leaves. Tinkling bells that hung on a string moved slightly. A squirrel ran through the bushes, and a snail slowly made its way across a muddy corner, which was still damp from the morning.”
― Ruth Ann Oskolkoff, Zin

“I was demolishing a lettuce leaf, my oval raspy-toothed mouth opening and closing like a flesh valve as I oozed along on my own self-generated glistening slime highway. The lovely green blur all around me, the lacework I was creating, the scent of chlorophyll, the juiciness—it was pure bliss. Live in the moment, humans are often told, but snails don’t need to be told. We’re in the moment all the time, and the moment is in us.”
― Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

“[...] The slowest snail that ever crawled dashed by too fast for me. [...]”
― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“A snail will never take a plunge in a river to find refreshment; I am refreshed wherever I am located for my source is Elshaddai...”
― Bayode Ojo, Petals Around The Rose

“Man is slow like a snail; but what he needs is to run like a rabbit!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Snail is frail but does not fail to assail every nail on its trail.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Snail is slow, smooth and succulent but vulnerable. With a wet and luscious tongue, it maneuvers its way across thorns and thistles without harm.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“The snail is a compact design combining organism and habitat. The snail is incredibly powerful, so powerful that it carries its house wherever it goes. Ever tried carrying your room on your shoulders?”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“The snail is incredibly powerful, so powerful that it carries its house on its shoulders wherever it goes.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“The walls shimmer with mica, and the ceiling is all branches and green vines. In the antechamber, the shell of an enormous snail glows, a lamp the size of a small table.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“The Crowned Snail by Stewart Stafford

The vortex-shelled snail,
Hermit rider of the dome,
Silver trails cross the garden,
This green, perennial home.

Playing Russian Roulette,
With giant feet or wheels,
Survivor of stone attacks,
Battering rams birds wield.

A journey with no beginning,
Nor a destination to travel to,
Snug in his fortress castle,
A crowned king, incognito.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford