I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life…

“The children had been using these spatulas as oars, but rowing a boat is very hard work, particularly if one’s traveling companions are too…

— Lemony Snicket

“Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again. 'May I presume to…

— Tim Powers

“There should ne’er be a time When a duty or dime Doth outshine The importance of family.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

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

And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.

— Andrew Marvell

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

— William Ritter

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