Quotes about snail
A collection of quotes on the topic of snail, likeness, world, time.
Quotes about snail

Genjūan no Fu ("Prose Poem on the Unreal Dwelling") in Donald Keene, Anthology of Japanese Literature, p. 374 (Translation: Donald Keene)
Statements
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (2010), "Epilogue," page 170
“Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.”
Source: The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

“The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.”

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

“I am this fiery snail crawling home.”
Source: Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

“…his head emerged cautiously, like that of a snail taking a look around after a thunderstorm.”
The Code of the Woosters (1938)

Opening narration
Life in the Undergrowth (2005)

1860s, 1864, Letter to James Guthrie (August 1864)

“The snail's pace is the normal pace of any democracy.”
DIE ZEIT, 19. Oktober 2003, zeit.de http://www.zeit.de/politik/Interview_031030

2000s, Democratic National Convention speech (2008)

On “consumeristic appetite for interviews,” New York Times (17 August 1986)

El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
Song lyrics, Bridge over Troubled Water (1970)
"Why We Should Not Name Human Races—A Biological View", p. 231
Ever Since Darwin (1977)

The Miami Herald, originally 16 November 2003
Columns and articles
Source: Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 1, Clock Of Ages, p. 7
“The snail will get to Easter just as soon.”
Aussi tost vient à Pasques limaçon.
"Moult se vantoit li cerfs d'estre legiers", line 10; text and translation from Brian Woledge (ed.) The Penguin Book of French Verse, 1: To the Fifteenth Century (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1961] 1968) p. 238.

"On People With One Idea"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
"Unenchanted Evening", p. 39
Eight Little Piggies (1993)
Racundra's First Cruise (Chapter 1), 1923

“The snail lives the way I like to live; he carries his own home with him.”

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part III: Strange Bedfellows, Charlemagne

"To Mistress Susanna Southwell". Compare: "Her feet beneath her petticoat / Like little mice stole in and out", Sir John Suckling, "Ballad upon a Wedding".
Hesperides (1648)
“Snail, snail, glister me forward,
Bird, soft-sigh me home,
Worm, be with me.
This is my hard time.”
"The Lost Son," ll. 8-11
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)
Context: I shook the softening chalk of my bones,
Saying,
Snail, snail, glister me forward,
Bird, soft-sigh me home,
Worm, be with me.
This is my hard time.

Bewilderness (DVD, 2001)
On choosing her pacing (as quoted in the book Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women https://books.google.com/books?id=G1il9uQG3A8C&pg=PA319&lpg=PA319&dq; 1998)
Home: A Very Short Introduction https://books.google.it/books?id=CyShDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT0 (Oxford University Press, 2017), ch. 7.