And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars…

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as…

— Haruki Murakami

“Madeline, my wife, never used to wear a watch. She does now, I am told. For a long time, in a very inexact way,…

— Elliot Perlman

“He might not have both oars in the water, but his course is sound.”

— William Ritter

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

— Edvard Munch

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

— Kris Kristofferson

Let go of the oars... Everything you want is downstream.

— Esther Hicks

“Listen, last time I talked to you three, you were all two oars short of having any oars, so I don't want to hear…

— James Riley

Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of…

— Esther Hicks

Don't want to slump over the oars.

— James Genn

I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat…

— Dwight L. Moody

When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing.

— Greg Plitt

“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.”

— Walt Whitman

Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called 'the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river, the shell…

— Stefan Kieszling

All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands…

— Lewis Carroll