Its Turtles All The Way Down Quotes

#1. The turtle stands on a turtle, which stands on a turtle. That's the universe in whole, boy. It's turtles all the way down.

Bill Willingham

#2. Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.

Josephine Winslow Johnson

#3. If Fairyland-Below is Fairyland's shadow, what is the shadow of Fairyland-Below? What's under the underworld?"
Ell laughed like thunder rolling somewhere far off. "I'm afraid it's underworlds all the way down, my dearest, darling flying ace.

Catherynne M Valente

#4. I am going where turtles win
I am going
where conmen puke and die
Down the sad esplanades
of the official world.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#5. I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree].

Davy Crockett

#6. It's turtles all the way down.

William James