Swim Quotes - Page 19

• ... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Men, Order, Sometimes

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.40, Library of America

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• I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

  Cara Buono

  Teacher, Yoga, Cycles

  "Chat: Cara Buono". Interview with Toby Tanser, www.runnersworld.com. November 1, 2006.

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• I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history.

  Summer Sanders

  Brother, Team, Swimming

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• Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Nature, Animal, Men

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• In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Truth, Order, Clothes

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• Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Fate, Lines

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.

  Euell Gibbons

  Food, Doors, Cake

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• I think I look good for my age. I've always looked younger than I really am. I'm 67 and I look about, maybe 62 or something like that. And I think my healthy lifestyle has paid off. I suffer from osteoarthritis. That's genetic and there's nothing I can do about that, except to try and not jump up and down, but rather swim and bike, instead of jumping up and down.

  Jane Fonda

  Thinking, Jumping, Healthy

  "After 15 years, Jane Fonda returns". The Associated Press interview, www.today.com. May 10, 2005.

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• Dont be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Water, Frogs, Fishes

  Young-ha Kim (2010). “Your Republic Is Calling You”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath

  John J. Geddes

  Apology, Water, Depth

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• People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.

  T-Pain

  People, Adults, Watches

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• I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.

  Oliver Sykes

  Trying, Drowning, Used

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• In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Swimming, White, Water

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• There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity nor his son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Son, Blood

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• The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Interesting, Machines

  Charles Stross (2011). “Rule 34”, p.140, Penguin

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• July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden - first sweet corn on the cob dripping with butter, first tomatoes dead ripe and sunwarm, string beans, squash, crisp cucumbers. July can also be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp. Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.

  Jean Hersey

  Sweet, Beach, Garden

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• Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Character, Feet, People

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• In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome.
  [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]

  George Herbert

  World, Bottom, Knows

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• When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

  Joseph Monninger

  Trout, Doe, Tilt

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• Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married before rushing into it.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sports, Swimming, Rushing

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• Some people are swimmers and they're born to swim. They're like fish in the water. I will definitely say it's someplace that I feel at home.

  Christine Swanson

  Home, People, Water

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to tour the fort and wander through it. And all of that time, I never knew anything about the presence of black soldiers on the island. And so, for me, this was a way of trying to tell another history, a lost or a forgotten or a little-known history about these black soldiers who played an important part in American history.” Trethewey said.
  Coincidentally, she was born “exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Memorial Day, Children, Islands

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• Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.

  George Will

  Running, People, Office

  "Dan Pfeiffer previews State of the Union, 2014 agenda; Sen. Mitch McConnell on GOP efforts to retake the Senate". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2014.

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• I went to a women's college. ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of the pool; I didn't learn the arm movements until after I graduated, but by that time I was one hell of a kicker.

  Anna Quindlen

  Education, College, Kickers

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.194, Ballantine Books

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• The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to retard their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Strong, Fighting, Years

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1997). “Saving Graces: The Inspirational Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder”, B & H Publishing Group

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