Swim Quotes - Page 35

• Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.

  Sarah Dessen

  Drifting, Dreamland, Shore

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.167, Penguin

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• You walk until you come to the ocean. You don't walk or run in the ocean - you float and swim. Like this once you come to the Master, seeking stops, blossoming begins.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Running, Ocean, Blossoming

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• You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

  Carl Jung

  Positive, Inspiring, Inspiration

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• I have insecurities about being a good mom, or balancing my career with motherhood. All of those are very strong, very real obstacles. My motto is just unconsciously, and maybe now consciously because I'm saying it, is sink or swim. I'm a fighter.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Mom, Strong, Real

  "Charisma Carpenter Talks SURVIVING EVIL, Telling Her Own Story of Survival, Connecting to Other Survivors, and Finding the Strength to Move On". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.

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• When I was eight years old, or I may have been younger, my aunt picked me up and threw me in the pool and I didn't know how to swim. It was like, "Conquer your fear and just get on with it." It must have made an impact on me.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Aunt, Impact, Eight

  "Charisma Carpenter Talks SURVIVING EVIL, Telling Her Own Story of Survival, Connecting to Other Survivors, and Finding the Strength to Move On". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.

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• The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

  St. Jerome

  Scripture, Drink, Enough

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• I am interested in people who swim in the deep end. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends. Life is crunchy and complicated and all the more delicious.

  Amy Poehler

  Real, Tired, Talking

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.82, Pan Macmillan

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• The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.

  John Cleese

  Christmas, Father, Mind

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• The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Art, Brother

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.120, Beacon Press

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• Most of the time you don't even know they're there. Now, that's the scary thing. It's really strange and invading, but I'm still working it all out. I try to not let it bother me. And if I want to swim naked in my pool, I'm still going to do it. I certainly don't want to feel that I have to change everything in my life that I do to cater to them. I just won't let it happen.

  Heath Ledger

  Scary, Trying, Naked

  National Post, May 2001.

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• We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

  Adam Gopnik

  Travel, Firsts, Language

  Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

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• Never worry about what anyone else is doing...Just swim your own race.

  Dara Torres

  Race, Worry

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• Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Memories, Swimming, Typical

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.322, e-artnow

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• A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

  Plato

  Writing, Men

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• It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your life has been the aberration; only in retrospect does it swim into focus as the rare and precious thing it is. When it is present, it seems to be eternal, abiding forever, and there is no need to examine it or clutch it. Later, when it has evaporated, you stare in dismay at your empty palm, where only a little of the perfume lingers to prove that once it was there, and now is flown.

  Margaret George

  Focus, Forever, Abiding

  Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.683, Pan Macmillan

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• It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special.

  Sarah Chalke

  Ocean, Sea, Special

  "Interview: The Cast And Crew Of Scrubs". Interview With Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. May 9, 2006.

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• Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ... Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Dream, Reality, Civilization

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “Footsteps”, Penguin Group USA

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• I lead a very active lifestyle. When I am not working, I enjoy snowboarding in winter. I golf and swim in the summer months. However, trying to find the time to exercise when I am traveling is quite a challenge. I find myself working out at hotel gyms quite regularly - just so that I can keep up with my training.

  Lee Byung-hun

  Summer, Exercise, Golf

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

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• I guess on a base level that's one of the first parental instincts that you have with children in Australia is learn to swim. Not only learn to swim but learn to swim strong.

  Eric Bana

  Strong, Children, Australia

  "Eric Bana Interview, Hanna". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.

  Jodi Picoult

  Beach, Turtles, Sea

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• Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

  Frank Herbert

  Water, Survival, Strange

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.272, Penguin

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• Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Mermaid, Earth, Soil

  Jeffrey McDaniel (2002). “Splinter Factory”, p.55, Manic D Press

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• Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

  Sara Paretsky

  Lakes, Golden Retrievers, Cliffs

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• God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.

  Catherine Marshall

  Adversity, Depth, Way

  Catherine Marshall (2002). “A Man Called Peter: The Story of Peter Marshall”, p.119, Chosen Books

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• The child is born speaking the languages of birds; the child has horns and scales and wings; it has a beak; it has a cloven hoof. He is the sum of all creatures: the ones that swim, the ones that soar, the ones that leap, the ones that maze the earth with burrows.

  Rikki Ducornet

  Love, Children, Wings

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