Swimming Quotes - Page 27

• When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

  Patti Davis

  Summer, Children, Hair

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• The loving and much loved wife is satisfied with the love of her husband; his smile is her joy, she cares little for any other. So, if you have come to Christ, thy Maker is thine husband - His free love to you is all you need, and all you can care for - there is no cloud between you and God - there is no veil between you and the Father; you have access to Him who is the fountain of happiness - what have you to do any more with idols? Oh! If your heart swims in the rays of God's love, like a little mote swimming in the sunbeam, you will have no room in your heart for idols.

  Robert E. Murray

  Husband, Father, Heart

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• A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

  Melody Carlson

  Book, Rivers, Kind

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• I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

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• Everyone who has been to an Olympics says expect the unexpected. That kind of psychology games does go on, so I'm kind of expecting things to happen but I don't know who from. I think it's kind of silly but I'm prepared for it. I'd probably just laugh it off because it means that they are afraid of racing me, so it's like a huge compliment

  Libby Trickett

  Motivational, Sports, Silly

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• Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
  To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down
  You had not seen take amber light alive.

  Allen Tate

  Mother, Light, Perfect

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• I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia for things I knew I hated when they were happening, for days spent at the beach or the swimming pool with my sisters.
  When I pick my memories apart, I realise my mind has merely played back the objective ingredients, the clichéd apparatus of happiness, the sun, the sound of splashing water, ice-cream on parched lips and cold fizzy drink on a hot tongue, and laugher too. My memory often peddles on the falsehood of past happiness. I should know this.

  M. J. Hyland

  Beach, Memories, Past

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• A single girl who needs nobody makes people uncomfortable, and my mom is right in this, appearance is everything, and appearing to have no one is like swimming alone in the middle of the ocean with a flesh wound.

  Elissa Schappell

  Girl, Mom, Ocean

  Elissa Schappell (2012). “Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I always have on my headphones to block out all of the other distractions and I'm just focused on doing the best that I can.... There a few of them ... DMX Party Up ... Mack 10 BC and Ice Cube Connected for Life. I also listen to the Eminem CD ...whichever song really gets me going that night

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Song

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• I liked beaches, swimming pools, and clinics for there they were the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. I pitied them and myself, but this will not protect me. The word and the thought are over.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Beach, Flesh, Bones

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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, Fishing

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

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• What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Air, Water, Flying

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• I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Rap

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• From the time we begin school, if not sooner, we are taught to be blind to our assets and only see our deficits. We are carefully marked on how many we got wrong on a test and, rarely if ever, asked how we know how to spell the ones we got right. By the time we are adults, we are well versed in every one of our limitations, skilled in our incompetence. If we were fish in an aquarium, it would be as if we kept smashing against the glass, and forgot the fact that we were perfectly capable of turning ever so slightly and swimming gracefully in the water all around us.

  Dawna Markova

  Education, School, Aquariums

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, Conari Press

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• I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria Thomas, Olympic champion. The feeling inside was one of pure, utter joy. Excitement, disbelief, relief, hapiness, amazement, the whole works. Id worked so hard. I'd gone through so much, privately, publicly. I'd lost faith in myself and found it again. I'd sometimes stopped believing that I could do it and that I had a purpose in life. I'd come through the darkness, and this, this moment, was the sweetest, most amazing light there could possibly be. I was alive and loving it!

  Petria Thomas

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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• Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

  Plato

  Plato, Feelings, Attention

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• 'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Character, Important, Pool

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.

  Arsene Wenger

  Country, Years, Pool

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• I'm a little top heavy, so I have to pay attention to that area. I think it was from my years of swimming in school when I was a kid and it just overdeveloped my upper body. In fact, when I started modeling, my back was so developed, I could not fit into any dresses.

  Rebecca Romijn

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different.

  Lil Wayne

  Ocean, Sky, Flying

  Song: Sky Is Tha Limit, Album: Da Drought 3

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• I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at Ping-Pong with their husband... ? Well, I did, and for all of these memories and the people in my life I feel blessed.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Husband, Memories, Blessed

  "Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry". Book by Elizabeth Taylor, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• I got my tattoo a year before the Olympic trials, so I kind of used it as motivation to make the Olympic team the following year. I look at it every time I dive and it's kind of a little fun thing.

  Tera Van Beilen

  Tattoo, Fun, Motivation

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• I came back late last night at the Athlete's Village so I'm a little bit surprised about my time this morning. It's really good and I'm going to race tonight and tomorrow night so I'm excited to see what I can do.

  Katerine Savard

  Morning, Athlete, Night

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• My best race is the 100 fly, but for the 50 you just have to go really fast one way so I really like it too. It's not the same strategy. For the 50 I just breathed once, so it's really different from the 100 fly.

  Katerine Savard

  Race, Way, Different

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• We knew we just had to win the heat to get in a good spot for the finals. We didn't want to push too hard for this morning to make sure we're not tired tonight. We want to be fresh for tonight because we know the other teams will be fresh.

  Samantha Cheverton

  Morning, Team, Tired

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