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"The charm of fable was that was in the feeling of the world and definitely the humor."
"Much like the tortoise and the hare, it seems that speed is not the answer."
"It's a magnificently pure and simple fable about reunification with the lost mother and maternal love and hope and persistence and love."
"Fable: Enchanted tale-telling with a moral edge."
"Slow and steady wins the race, like that one turtle guy."
"It was a fabled society of immense wealth, knowledge, and power, and of course, hubris, and it met a sudden end in a world-shaping cataclysm."
"...the tortoise was as fast as the hair all along and never took a nap."
"The Fox represents physicists, the grapes represent understanding quantum mechanics... The Fox says, 'You know what? I never wanted those grapes anyway. They were probably sour.'"
"It's just like that fable of the shepherd boy who called wolf."
"Give yourself that freedom to take your time and not race through everything because we all know the story of the tortoise and the hare, and that tortoise just so happens to win every time."
"A Golden Goose is no excuse for being mean."
"If you ever do a favor for a great beast with long teeth and sharp claws, and he tells you that he will be forever grateful, don't you believe him."
"It's the old story of The Tortoise and the Hare."
"The tortoise and the hare, it's not always the flashy speed but the guy that just keeps going."
"I never want to sell the goose that laid the golden egg."
"Haven't you ever heard that slow and steady wins the race?"
"Take it nice and slow, slow and easy, it's like the tortoise and the hare."
"It's kind of set up like a fable, a bit of a fable if you will."
"Who said the sky is falling? Chicken Little."
"Ten years ago, crazy farmer Eduardo sold his last cow for some magic beans, but the joke was on him because Eduardo planted those beans and look what he got back today."
"Sometimes the tortoise does in fact beat the hare."
"The Tortoise won the race because the tortoise made steady progress."
"These are elements of a tall tale or a fable or a mythical story."
"Then you will die of thirst," said the lion.
"Rule of the Bone and The Sweet Hereafter, although in many ways conventionally realistic novels, can be read as fables, telling the story of the lost children in our time."
"In Canton, David hears the story of the blue rose, a Chinese fable of impossible love."
"You only won because I fell asleep," said the hare. "Oh yeah?" said the tortoise.
"It's like the old adage about the tortoise and the hare: the tortoise always wins."
"Slow and steady may be the way to win the race."
"I'm gonna go with the classic tale of the bunny rabbit and the mailbox."
"I like the turtle, the way they teach to the turtle and the rabbit race, real talk."
"It's very tortoise in the hare, don't give up on them early."
"In a country far, far away, there were two sisters famous for their arrogance and jealousy."
"The story of the Wolf coming is about a child who, bored one day herding sheep on the mountain, lied to the villagers at the foot of the mountain saying the wolf came."
"The story of the Scorpion and the Frog is a powerful illustration of this principle."
"The fastest way to the end is to cut, that's why the turtle won the race."
"Do you know the story of the boy who cried wolf?"
"The sun and the north wind were talking to each other in the sky."
"Every single time you read it, the tortoise wins."
"You know the story about the Scorpion and the Frog?"
"Remember that fable, the tortoise and the hare? When the tortoise was patient and slow, the hare was fast and reckless."
"They owned a goose who laid a single golden egg every single day."
"Slow and steady wins the race," Sienna points out.
"The king gave the participants fake seeds; the woman was the only honest person who didn't try to cheat."
"I never played the Xbox a whole lot, I played Fable and it was amazing."
"It's more like a modern fable commenting on what drives American society today and also on a wider scale what it means to be human."
"Lamb is at its most successful when seen as a slice of mythology or a dark, warped modern-day fable."
"Fable is definitely one of my favorite franchises and the first one is incredible."
"When the hares addressed a public meeting and claimed that all should have fair shares, the lions answered: 'A good speech, hairy feet, but it lacks claws and teeth such as we have.'"
"Well done Turtle, sometimes slow and steady really does win the race."
"The tortoise won the race after all."
"A hungry crow spied a snake lying asleep in a sunny spot."
"We're gonna take it slow and steady. Have you ever heard the story of the tortoise and the hare?"
"The Nightingale knew the fox was trying to trick her."
"The story's old but it teaches you, that slow and steady wins the race."
"The ants and the grasshopper: one lovely spring day, a grasshopper was playing his guitar."
"Progress is slow and studied, just like the story of the turtle and the hare."
"Once upon a time, there was a giant so big and powerful that everybody would know about the giant."
"The tortoise and the prayer; it doesn't matter how much faster the hare is."
"The KLR-650 riders are the physical incarnation of the tortoise from the Tortoise and the Hare story."