Swim Quotes - Page 22

• People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

  Marcel Proust

  Leadership, Sports, Time

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.2432, Jester House Publishing

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• I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.

  Karl Pilkington

  Ideas, Dolphins, Mood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

  Michael Phelps

  Birthday, Sports, Swimming

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• If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

  Michael Phelps

  Crazy, School, Thinking

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• Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

  Shimon Peres

  Swimming, Years, Israel

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• I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!

  Bettie Page

  House, Bird

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

  Liam Neeson

  Birthday, Water, Age

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• Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Soccer, Running, Nice

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• If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Interesting, Saws, Thames

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love to swim. I need goggles. If I don't have goggles I run in to the walls of the pool. I have no sense of directions.

  Julianne Hough

  Running, Wall, Goggles

  "Footloose - Julianne Hough interview". Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.

  Jim Morrison

  Mirrors, Two, Way

  Jim Morrison (1971). “The Lords and The New Creatures”, Touchstone

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• I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.

  Matthew Fox

  Wyoming, Water, Mountain

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• We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Horse, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

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• Oh, for that remarkable and complex economy of motherhood. Those back and forth generosities-where one day a mom ferries the kids to the swim meet, or a mom takes your kid off to the movies while you're sick with the flu. And the next week after baseball you have all the kids sleep over. Not to mention the friend with whom you freely have the throw-your-hands-in-the-air-I-surrender discussions of how to manage any of it.

  Victoria Redel

  Mom, Baseball, Sleep

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• I've always wanted to like, swim in a swimming pool filled with peanut butter

  Jesse McCartney

  Swimming, Peanut Butter, Pool

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• I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse.

  China Machado

  Girl, Horse, I Can

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• Yes, take a little time to play And look at life the other way. God rested when the world was made: Rest now, old friend; be not afraid. But think not that your work is over, That you are now a foot-free rover, A rambler upon idle ways, Whittling away the golden days. For in the road climb to the goal There's no long furlough for a soul. There's no long pause: on every height Another summit swims in sight. The long road rises, scene by scene, With little restings in between.

  Edwin Markham

  Thinking, Sight, Golden Days

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• I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Light, Discovery, Down And

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “At the Bottom of the River”, p.21, Macmillan

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• Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Fear, Joy, World

  Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher (1783). “The purple island, or The isle of man. [In verse] To which is added, Christ's victory and triumph, a poem by G. Fletcher”, p.116

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• The final goal of physical education is to make strong beings. In the purely physical sense, the Natural Method promotes the qualities of organic resistance, muscularity and speed, towards being able to walk, run, jump, move on all fours, to climb, to keep balance, to throw, lift, defend yourself and to swim.

  Georges Hebert

  Running, Strong, Moving

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• ... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Swimming, White, Sailing

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.824, e-artnow

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• What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.

  Samuel Beckett

  Truth, Speak, Existence

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• I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.

  Summer Sanders

  Years, Water, Doe

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• Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.

  Summer Sanders

  Kids, Swimming, Goal

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• Before even considering an exercise and nutrition program, I recommend that the person put on some swim trunks and have somebody take a photo of them. Then take a good look and ask yourself: Is this who I really am? If you don't see yourself as that, you have the opportunity to change it. But you need to change your mindset.

  Bill Phillips

  Exercise, Opportunity, Needs

  Source: billphillipsnews.com

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