Swimming Quotes · Page 17

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

— John Shelby Spong

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

— Patti Davis

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

— George A. Sheehan

I tried synchronized swimming, but felt, over time, I was just going through the motions.

— Dana Gould

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

— Melody Carlson

I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.

— Maria Menounos

Seventy-five percent of our planet is water, can you swim?

— Anonymous

I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving.

— Julia Mancuso

I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm…

— Ann Brashares

Seemingly unrelated [things] that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming,…

— Tim Ferriss

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that…

— Anonymous

When I got to college, I used to run on top of everything else, because when you gain weight in swimming, you…

— Summer Sanders

“There’s an old adage: the sensation of drowning reminds you of everything you ever knew about swimming.”

— Frederick Weisel

There are days when you just sit at home, and those days are tough. Because it's like, 'I have a swimming pool…

— Jacob Elordi

I'm not going to lead my show talking about my kids, but will I perhaps mention my five-year-old swimming? Yeah! I think…

— Adam Schein

In one session, I saw a lady and a man learn to swim for the first time. Within an hour, the man…

— Gethin Jones

I was being singled out as the best in the class at this, that and the other, nearly always to do with…

— Rolf Harris

The only way Congress can get one dollar to spend is to take that one dollar from Americans, borrow that one dollar…

— Walter E. Williams

I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break…

— Strom Thurmond

I flipped through a book on harp seals in the late 1970s and saw images of them swimming in emerald green pools…

— Brian Skerry

Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will…

— Dale Carnegie

I felt really bad for someone who is swimming in so much hate. I just thought, that's someone who's in a really…

— Melissa McCarthy

Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms…

— David Hockney

I've always had this thing for swimming pools - I think they're much sexier and far more glamorous than the beach, in…

— Michael Bastian

If you melt dry ice in a pool and go swimming, will you get wet?

— Steven Wright

I don't think I'm 'the guy' in the sport of swimming, but people want to label me as 'the guy.'

— Caeleb Dressel

I like swimming, but I'm not very good at it. Pretty bad at it, actually.

— Harris Dickinson

I like swimming or go to the gym, but I am alone a lot, and that can get a little depressing.

— Beth Hart

“Life is like an Ocean! You either swim to stay on the top, or do nothing and sink to the bottom!”

— Alex Haditaghi

I swim laps, which is nice because I'm weightless in the water.

— Morena Baccarin

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

— Boris Johnson

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

— Warren Buffett

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

— Robert Jordan

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

— Ravi Zacharias

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

— Alexander the Great

My mother had been adamant that I learn how to swim properly.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

The human body is not designed for swimming in minus 1.7 degree centigrade water.

— Lewis Gordon Pugh

I was swimming for the United States of America. I was swimming to beat Stephen Holland.

— Bobby Hackett

I took up scuba diving, and my next big thing is BASE jumping.

— Donald Cerrone

I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.

— Michael Phelps