Swim Quotes - Page 26

• But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

  Karen White

  Thinking, Underwater, Sometimes

  Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.114, Penguin

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• What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

  Alfred Adler

  Inspiring, Mistake, Way

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• There was no lifeboat here in these deep, killing waters, not even a lighthouse, marking the way back to shore with its soft amber promise. There was only the storm of Barrons and the one I seemed to be, and if there were dark shapes moving in the waters beneath my feet that I should probably take a good hard look at and possibly reconsider trying to swim here, I didn’t care.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Moving, Dark, Feet

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.396, Dell

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• Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group and someone decides to go for a swim or walk to the water. The ocean is a giant stage. It is natural that the others watch, if only for a moment.

  Emily Giffin

  Ocean, Water, Groups

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.122, Macmillan

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• By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.

  Steve Erickson

  Water, Shadow, Delirium

  Steve Erickson (2013). “Rubicon Beach: A Novel”, p.77, Open Road Media

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• Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

  Mark Twain

  Blood, Comfort, World

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.414, Univ of California Press

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• I knew how to swim by the time I turned 4.

  Audrina Patridge

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• I don't swim! That's like athletic.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Athletic

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• No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

  Nick Cave

  Kings, Born, Fishes

  Nick Cave (2007). “The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013”, p.99, Penguin UK

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• They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

  Lou Reed

  Coffee, Blood, Evil

  Song: The Blue Mask

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• Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

  Hope Davis

  Summer, Beach, New York

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

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• I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.

  Ray Davies

  Peace, Special, World

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• If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per cent are trivial. There is then perhaps half a per cent where skill, persistence, courage, creativity and originality can make a difference. It is always the task of the academic to swim in that half a per cent, asking the questions through which some progress can be made.

  Hermann Bondi

  Creativity, Science, Persistence

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• I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.

  Matt Cameron

  Running, Motorcycle, Trying

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• We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

  Mark Twain

  Stars, Night, Drifting Off

  Mark Twain (2010). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Only Authoritative Text Based on the Complete, Original Manuscript”, p.78, Univ of California Press

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• Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

  Antonia Fraser

  Exercise, Zest, Cinema

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• I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Body, Helping, Clear

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• A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

  John Keats

  Lakes, Water, Poetry

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• I love the feeling of the weightlessness. I always love being in the water and to combine jumping off the side into the water feels like a different and fun way to be able to swim. I feel free like I could do anything

  Tom Daley

  Fun, Love Is, Jumping

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• Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.

  Molly Ivins

  Sorry, Heart, Born

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.118, Vintage

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• I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my mind at the time, was I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world.

  Dawn Fraser

  Mind, Stronger, World

  "The one that came the longest way!". "The Sports Factor" with Amanda Smith, www.abc.net.au. June 8, 2001.

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• Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Frightened, Cautious

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

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• On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.

  Hanna Rosin

  Children, Media, Hands

  "The Touch-Screen Generation". www.theatlantic.com. April 2013.

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• The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Moving, Sea

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• I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord saith leadeth to the New Jerusalem. Sure I am, if you knew what were before you, or if you saw some glances of it, you would, with gladness, swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of desire to be at land.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Grief, Land, Sorrow

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