Swim Quotes - Page 34

• A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Ocean, Boys

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• LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

  Ambrose Bierce

  War, Self Esteem, Weapons

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.153, University of Georgia Press

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• The richest of all lords is Use,
  And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse.
  Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,
  Drink the wild air's salubrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Sunshine, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.243

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• I try and direct environmentally . So that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'Action'. So that they can literally be swimming in the warm water and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

  Cameron Crowe

  Swimming, Race, People

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• The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Men, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

  Christina Baldwin

  Thinking, Water, Mind

  Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.77, New World Library

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• No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

  Seneca the Elder

  Men, Baggage, Concentration

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• The more supple vagabond, too, is sure to appear on the least rumor of such a gathering, and the next day to disappear, and go into his hole like the seventeen-year locust, in an ever-shabby coat, though finer than the farmer's best, yet never dressed.... He especially is the creature of the occasion. He empties both his pockets and his character into the stream, and swims in such a day. He dearly loves the social slush. There is no reserve of soberness in him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Years, Next Day

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.241, Xist Publishing

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• Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.

  Rajneesh

  Teaching, Sea, Rivers

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• I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.--Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Morning, Swimming

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Plumed Serpent”, p.372, Wordsworth Editions

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• I've never regretted a swim

  Joseph Murray

  Never Regret

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• Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

  Sam Walton

  Way, Conventional Wisdom, Conventional

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.317, Bantam

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• When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

  Tom Cruise

  Action, Problem

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• Two young salmon are swimming along one day. As they do, they are passed by a wiser, older fish coming the other way. The wiser fish greets the two as he passes, saying, "Morning boys, how's the water?" The other two continue to swim in silence for a little while, until the first one turns to the other and asks, "What the hell is water?"

  David Foster Wallace

  Morning, Swimming, Boys

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• I'm like a surfer right now. I'm just surfing the wave. Except that I can't swim, so I'm on the board trying to hold on tight.

  Shaggy

  Surfing, Trying, Boards

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• You don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, but you want to get rid of the bathwater so the baby can swim the next couple of days and be OK.

  Greg Norman

  Baby, Couple, Want

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• When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50 pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93, I'm on the same plant-based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt since my heart problems began.

  Benjamin Spock

  Heart, Vegetarian Diet, Years

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• He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Trouble

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• We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.

  China Mieville

  Love You, Animal, Men

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• You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and noting the course of the currents.

  Philip Kapleau

  Rivers, Mind, Body

  Philip Kapleau (1989). “Zen: Merging of East and West”, Anchor

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• There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

  Karen Russell

  Extinction, Certain, Prehistoric

  "Haunting Olivia" by Karen Russell, www.newyorker.com. June 13, 2005.

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• In a world where so much that is wild and free has been lost to us, we must leave these beautiful animals free to swim as they will and must. They do us no harm and wish us none and we should let them alone.

  Ric O'Barry

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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• Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Strong, Fire, Light

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• We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a day, or did you peter out bit by bit? When did you stop having parties? Did everyone else get old too, or was it just you? Are other people still here, hiding in the palm trees or holding their breath underwater? When did you last swim your laps? Do your bones hurt? Did you know this was coming and hide that you knew, or did it ambush you from behind?

  Jennifer Egan

  Hurt, Party, People

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.65, Anchor

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• Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.

  Rachel Miner

  Crazy, Real, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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