Swam Quotes

59 Swam quotes by 56 unique authors

Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful,… — P.G. Wodehouse
Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in… — David Wroblewski
A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and… — John Steinbeck
Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam… — Pablo Neruda
From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of… — Cornelia Funke
She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the… — Kate Chopin
People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their… — Ann Brashares
Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell… — Rick Riordan
It was Nick's voice Nick's arms. He turned me on my back and swam with me, pulling me to the bank. — Elizabeth Chandler
Hold your horses. I'm coming."... "From where I'm standing you're just breathing laboriously." The snow swam out of focus. "Breathing hard. Are you coming or… — Ilona Andrews
Whatever happened to him?" Silk asked. "He went swimming in the Nedrane." "I didn't know that Thulls swam all that well." "They don't–particularly not with… — David Eddings
Adina gave a little shriek. "That fish just swam past my leg! Creepy! Where did it go?" "To your right! Two o'clock! Get it!" "You… — Libba Bray
I couldn't see who swam in the darkness, who wore shadows like a second skin. — Rachel Vincent
It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling… — Jeff Lindsay
I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it… — Lewis Carroll
...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between… — Louise Erdrich
I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as… — Gayle Forman
I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I… — Neil Gaiman
I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no… — Benedict Cumberbatch
Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight. — Unknown Author
On 15 July 2007, I swam across an open patch of sea at the North Pole to highlight the melting of the Arctic sea ice. — Lewis Gordon Pugh
My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam… — Teddy Sears
I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion. — Diana Nyad
I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They… — Summer Sanders

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