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Quotes About Turtle

The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!" Alek tried not to laugh. "Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?" "Don't try to be clever, young man." She narrowed her eyes. "It's elephants all the way down!
~ Scott Westerfeld
Barking machines! Dylan exclaimed. Didn't I tell you? I've never seen a beastie that couldn't get up on its own. Well, except a turtle. And one of my auntie's cats. Alek raised an eyebrow. And I'm sure your auntie's cat would have survived that aerial bomb. You'd be surprised. He's quite fast.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Nou ja, we kennen allemaal die theorie dat de wereld een grote schotel op de rug van een reusachtige schildpad is. - Thorn
~ John Flanagan
The turtle cant dance because it has no waist
~ John Krich
Irma looked around her bedroom desperately. Her eyes fell on the stack of schoolbooks lying on top of her vanity table. Homework! Homework trumped everything! Irma dived toward the desk and scooped up a couple of textbooks. "I want to do my homework!" she wailed. "I have to study. Send Leafy instead of me!" Irma pointed to her pet turtle. "Your turtle is not going on a date with Martin Tubbs!
~ Elizabeth Lenhard
about four inches down, he suddenly came into a small chamber in the cool-damp sand and there lay eggs, many eggs, almost perfectly round eggs the size of table tennis balls, and he laughed then because he knew. It had been a turtle.
~ Gary Paulsen
If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
~ George Carlin
I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.'
~ Demetri Martin
I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
~ Janet Fitch
Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation." "An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.
~ Ellen Raskin
Twenty-five years in the KGB and an agent used a turtle's name as his password. Lenin wept.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
loggerhead. 1. Latin: Caretta caretta. A tropical sea turtle with a hard shell and a large head. 2. a stupid fellow; blockhead. 3. at loggerheads; in disagreement; in a quarrel.
~ Mary Alice Monroe
I'm the Turtle, son. I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; I had a belly-ache.
~ Stephen King
See the TURTLE of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; He holds us all within his mind. On his back all vows are made; He sees the truth but may not said. He loves the land and loves the sea, And even loves a child like me
~ Stephen King
See the TURTLE, ain't he keen? All things serve the fuckin Beam.
~ Stephen King
See the turtle of enormous girth, on his shell he holds the earth. If you want to run and play, come along the beam today.
~ Stephen King
See the TURTLE of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; He holds us all within his mind. On his back all vows are made; He sees the truth but mayn't aid. He loves the land and loves the sea, And even loves a child like me.
~ Stephen King
Kinda spooky, ain't it. Hell of a lot of coincidences. Like we say back home, when you find a turtle settin' on top of a fencepost, you can be pretty damn sure he didn't get there on his own.
~ Mary Doria Russell
I'd programmed and dropped in a few back-to-back flicks starring Gamera, my favorite giant flying turtle.
~ Ernest Cline
I miss my dog." ... "What was his name again?" "Mouse." "That was very unkind of you." "Naming him mouse?" "Isn't he a greyhound?" "I could have named hum Turtle." "Frederick!"... "It's better than Frederic," Annabel said, "Good heavens, that's my brother's name.
~ Julia Quinn
My parents do not limit themselves to worrying about things that have actually happened. Dreams are also fair game. I often get phone calls with detailed descriptions of a dream, followed by "So naturally, I had to call to make sure you were okay and there wasn't a reason why I dreamed of you trapped in a canoe with a blue turtle.
~ Firoozeh Dumas
Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.
~ Iris Apfel
Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?!
~ Christopher Paul Curtis
Their (Council of Dads) wisdom reads like a psalmbook of living: Approach the cow Pack your flip-flops Don't see the wall Tend your tadpoles Live the questions Harvest miracles Always learn to juggle on the side of a hill Take a walk with a turtle
~ Bruce Feiler