Swim Quotes · Page 13

Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.

— Chogyam Trungpa

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

— Frida Kahlo

You'd be amazed at what I can do. Did you know I can swim?

— Ryan Lochte

I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.

— Lauren DeStefano

I said to my girlfriend, you shouldn't eat before you swim. She said, "why not"? I said, you look fat.

— Jimmy Carr

I play basketball every single day in the offseason. I also lift weights and swim.

— Aaron Gordon

“Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.”

— Amit Ray

People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could.

— Gertrude Ederle

You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?" "We have a very big bathtub.

— Suzanne Collins

We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before…

— Bernard Manning

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

— Mark Twain

“I have flown and fallen, and I have swum deep and drowned, but there should be more to love than "I survived…

— Lisa Mantchev

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to…

— John Eldredge

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because…

— Billie Jean King

Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war,…

— Erma Bombeck

“I still don't know how to work out a poem. A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving into…

— John Keats

I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

...But some of the ideas are ridiculous. Such as matching the hatch. Of course there are times when you have a fly…

— Charles Ritz

I wanted to get the fastest time in the world this year, but with everything going on, it's a pretty decent swim,…

— Michael Phelps

From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed,…

— Ovid

The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a…

— Anonymous

I do have one regret though. I wish Kathy Acker was still alive. I wish I could go swim with her again.…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Swim for the music that saves you when your not sure you'll survive.

— Anonymous

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

— Alexander Pope

And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing.

— Casper Van Dien

To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.

— John Cheever

I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer.

— Brigitte Bardot

You don't have to swim faster than the shark, just faster than the person you're with.

— Kevin Nealon

I've been lucky enough to swim with dolphins and whales a few times.

— Michaela Strachan

Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters… better deep than shallow!

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

— Kim Young-ha

But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

— Karen White

You shouldn't be able to do a swim at the North Pole, it should be frozen over.

— Lewis Pugh

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one

— Tea Leoni

I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.

— Sherri Shepherd

I like to run down to the beach and have a little swim in the nude in the morning.

— Robert McNamara