Swimming Quotes - Page 25

• I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

  Jack Kerouac

  Rivers, Hardship, Know How

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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• I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.

  Sarah Dessen

  Water, Growing, Surface

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.245, Penguin

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• There are so many things that I still want to do. My foundation, growing my brand . . . the list is endless. I'm honestly busier now than I was when I was swimming. It's kind of weird, but I feel like more of an adult because I have to do stuff every day. Whether it's checking emails or making phone calls or doing this and that, it's fun for me. It's the start of a new chapter. At times, it is frustrating, but I know it's not going to be easy to accomplish the goals that I want.

  Michael Phelps

  Fun, Goal, Kind

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff." "Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool.

  James Patterson

  Stuff, Be Kind, Chlorine

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• There was a horrible smell in the kitchen the next morning when Harry went in for breakfast. It seemed to be coming from a large metal tub in the sink. He went to have a look. The tub was full of what looked like dirty rags swimming in gray water. "What's this?" he asked Aunt Petunia. "Your new school uniform," she said. Harry looked in the bowl again. "Oh," he said, "I didn't realize it had to be so wet.

  J. K. Rowling

  Morning, Dirty, School

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• It's great to have two cars and a swimming pool. But there are disappointments. After you've made some money and acquired some things, and after the initial excitement has passed, life goes on, just as bewildering as it always was, and the great problems of life and death once again come to the fore.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Disappointment, Two, Life And Death

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• Given the huge size of Aegirocassis and its very alien appearance, I assume most people would probably be terrified if they'd encounter it while swimming. However, contrary to almost all other anomalocaridids which were active predators, our animal would have been a very peaceful guy.

  Benjamin Van Roy

  Animal, People, Guy

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• Domesticated salmon, after several generations, are fat, listless things that are good at putting on weight, not swimming up fast-moving rivers. When they get into a river and breed with wild fish, they can damage the wild fish's prospects of surviving to reproduce.

  Charles Clover

  Moving, Rivers, Damage

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.312, Univ of California Press

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• Awareness of having better things to do with their lives is the secret to immunizing our children against false values--whether presented on television or in "real life." The child who finds fulfillment in music or reading or cooking or swimming or writing or drawing is not as easily convinced that he needs recognition or power or some "high" to feel worthwhile.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Real, Reading

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When you look into the faces of these quiet creatures who don't know how to tell stories--who are mute, who can't make themselves heard, who fade into the woodwork, who only think of the perfect answer after the fact, after they're back at home, who can never think of a story that anyone else will find interesting--is there not more depth and more meaning in them? You can see every letter of every untold story swimming on their faces, and all the signs of silence, dejection, and even defeat. You can even imagine your own face in those faces, can't you?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Home, Thinking, Perfect

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• When you're younger and dumber, as a guy, you do things because you think you have to, because that's how things are done. You wait the standard three days to call, you don't approach the beautiful girl at the bar because you automatically assume she's out of your league, you'd rather jump in a swimming pool filled with jellyfish than tell a woman that you have feelings for her, etc.

  Jason Mulgrew

  Beautiful, Girl, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with the clear vision of faith. When a young Celtic monk saw his cat catch a salmon swimming in shallow water, he cried, "The power of the Lord is in the paw of the cat!

  Brennan Manning

  Cat, Water, Greek

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.58, Multnomah

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• I lead a very physical life. I played a lot of sports and I spent a lot of time in the water surfing, swimming. I was a big swimmer.

  Dustin Clare

  Sports, Water, Surfing

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• My head is my favorite swimming pool.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Pool, My Favorite, Swimming Pool

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• Your core is so important. Get your endurance up. Running and long-distance. Swimming is good as well. Important to have a good core, utilize the proper exercises to strengthen it. It goes out to the rest of your body and makes sure your body is right.

  Jozy Altidore

  Running, Distance, Exercise

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• I think the main thing is: Just do it. Plunge in! Being Canadian, I go swimming in icy cold lakes, and there is always that dithering moment. "Am I really going to do this? Won't it hurt?" And at some point you just have to flop in there and scream. Once you're in, keep going. You may have to crumple and toss, but we all do that. Courage! I think that is what's most required.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hurt, Thinking, Lakes

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Dec 31, 2014

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• Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

  George Polya

  Art, Practice, Piano

  George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”

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• I like to do outdoorsy things: hikes, trails, running, swimming. I love the sun. I'm all about the warmth.

  Alicia Keys

  Running, Sun, Trails

  "Best Celebrity Body Transformations of 2008", www.glamour.com.

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• When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.

  Adam Shankman

  Creativity, Sharks, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

  Jackie Evancho

  Summer, Ice, Childhood

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• There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

  Dick Cavett

  Yale, Class, Yards

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• The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.

  Brian Christian

  Writing, Fighting, Phones

  "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, 2010.

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• It's really cool to see how many awesome, badass ladies are out there now just doing their thing and putting their foot down, saying, "Nope. You're not going to tell me I'm doing something women shouldn't be doing." It's a scary time but also I think a really important time. I'm happy to see how much girls are responding to a lot of the other powerful big boys swimming out there right now.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Girl, Powerful, Badass

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.

  Mark Warkentin

  Olympian

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• When I was six I wanted to be a ballerina. By the time I was eight I was fairly sure this plan wasn't panning out. I began aspiring to be an "Aquamaid" at a resort called "Aquarena Springs" in my hometown of San Marcos: Aquamaids got to wear mermaid tails and feed milk bottles underwater to Ralph the Swimming Pig for an audience submerged in a "submarine".

  Elizabeth Crook

  Spring, Eight, Pigs

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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