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| − | {{quote|quote=Turtles always strike me as devastatingly serious. If turtles could talk, I'd believe everything they said.|author=Erin O'Brien|reference=[http://erin-obrien.blogspot.com/2009/04/turtleneck.html 'Turtleneck']}}
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| − | {{quote|quote=All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle.|author=Ralph Waldo Emerson|book=Journal|reference='5/9 1854'}}
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| − | {{quote|quote=The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks<br />Which practically conceal its sex.<br />I think it clever of the turtle<br />In such a fix to be so fertile.|author=Odgen Nash|reference='The Turtle'}}
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| − | {{quote|quote=Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.|author=Terry Pratchett|book=Small Gods}}
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| − | {{quote|quote=The rareness of meeting a Buddha is compared with the difficulty of a blind sea- turtle finding a log to float on, or a one-eyed tortoise finding a log with a spy-hole through it.|book=Chinese proverbs|author=Soothill}}
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| − | ===...in music / radio===
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| − | {{quote|quote=[A good friend of mine has said] There's this feeling that people who aren't religious are kind of cold and uncreative. His point is that any five year old can make up Adam and Eve or the world on the back of a turtle, or any of the creation myths, whereas the "creativity" comes in things like black holes, which are so much harder to think up, and you can '''prove'''.|author=Penn Jillette|reference=(Richard Dawkins interview)|book=Penn Radio}}
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| − | {{quote|quote=Caught up in a whirlwind, can't catch my breath<br />Knee deep in hot water, broke out in a cold sweat<br />Can't catch a turtle in this rat race<br />Feels like I'm losin' time at a breakneck pace|book=Tightrope|author=Stevie Ray Vaughan}}
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| − | ===...in film===
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| − | {{quote|quote=Gus, don't be a giant snapping turtle! We'll have a case in ... 5 minutes.|book=Psych|character=Shawn|reference=Episode 203: 65 Million Years Off}}
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| − | {{quote|quote=[Bandit] I got you boxed in like a turtle's belly|book=Smokey and the Bandit II|character=Sheriff Buford T. Justice}}
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| − | {{quote|quote=Dance, you mud turtles. Dance!|book=The Ten Commandments (1956)|character=Slave driver}}
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| − | *See Also [[Turtles on The Simpsons]]
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