Rowing Quotes

169 quotes by 72 authors

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's… — Dhani Harrison
Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or… — Frederick Carl Frieseke
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life… — Robert Frost
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things… — Clare Balding
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would… — Ernest Hemingway
Wild Nights â€“ Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile â€“ the winds â€“ To a heart in port… — Emily Dickinson
There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. — Aeschylus
That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of… — Deborah Harkness
you're rowing by wordlight — Paul Celan
You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I… — Mary Oliver
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.â€ - Chinese proverb — Alvin Toffler
A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing -… — Lewis Carroll
There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way. — Harry S. Truman
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. — Kenichi Ohmae
Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced… — Rosemary Mahoney
Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the… — Esther Hicks
When I was young, I read everything I could lay my hands on, but the Scots in my storybooks spent their time fighting glorious battles,… — Theresa Breslin

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