Swamp Quotes
95 quotes by 85 authors
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I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason…
— George W. Bush
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Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a…
— Buddy Hackett
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I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun…
— Jean Webster
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There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with…
— Henry Mitchell
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We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and…
— Ronald Reagan
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Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building…
— Karl Popper
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Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and…
— William Bernbach
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When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with…
— John Fogerty
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By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in…
— Ray Allen
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We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing emissions. It's sort…
— Frances Ford Seymour
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Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How do we not rue the many unchosen paths in life? A blessed lack of imagination. There are enough real glories along any path to…
— Terry Rossio
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Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow.…
— Anthony of Padua
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It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.
— Ronald Reagan
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And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the…
— Stephen King
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Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump /…
— Charlie Daniels
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Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.
— Charles M. Blow
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I just started calling myself 'Swamp A-.' Like, I have swamp a- right now. I had major swamp a- because I was wearing these Spanx…
— Jessica Simpson
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid…
— Adrienne Rich
Who Wrote These Swamp Quotes
85 authors contributed a total of 95 Swamp Quotes, led by these top contributors: