“Slugs have ridden their contempt for defensive armour as much to death as the turtles their pursuit of it. They have hardly more than skin enough to hold themselves together; they court death every time they cross the road. Yet death comes not to them more than to the turtle, whose defences are so great that there is little left inside to be defended. Moreover, the slugs fare best in the long run, for turtles are dying out, while slugs are not, and there must be millions of slugs all over the world over for every single turtle.”

Source: Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

Yertle the Turtle (1958)

'Ahora pasa que las tortugas son grandes admiradoras de la velocidad, como es natural. Las esperanzas lo saben, y no se preocupan. Los famas lo saben, y se burlan. Los cronopios lo saben, y cada vez que encuentran una tortuga, sacan la caja de tizas de colores y sobre la redonda pizarra de la tortuga dibujan una golondrina.'
Historias de Cronopios y de Famas (1962)

Kush
Official Mix tapes, The Leak (2007)

Jace Herondale and Clary Fray, pg. 395-396
The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

Source: The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), p. 28-29

Source: The Gunslinger

Source: City of Heavenly Fire