Swamp Quotes
95 Swamp quotes by 85 unique authors
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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp -…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another.…
— Anne Lamott
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
— Yitzhak Rabin
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When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of…
— Sheldon Whitehouse
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This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.
— Ron Wyden
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I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to…
— Ayn Rand
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Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave…
— Fernando Pessoa
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i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.
— Marilyn Hacker
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One can see now how the idea of heaven takes hold of men's consciousness, how it gains ground even when all the props have been…
— Henry Miller
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With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a…
— Patrick Süskind
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Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They'll probably offer me lemonade." Excuse me? You're going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while I plow a…
— Nancy Werlin
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I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.
— Josh Lanyon
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If all I can say is I'm not in this swamp, I'm not in this swamp then there is not a rope in front of…
— Tori Amos
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If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with…
— Hélder Câmara
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I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing,…
— Patrick Ness
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Would you leave me alone, you walking pair of boots! Let go of my easel, you refugee from a luggage factory. If you need some…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You know, I’ve had a really wonderful night tonight. I got to tell Kyrian and Julian that Valerius is in town and spent, oh I…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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This is the swamp as I see it, but what I can’t capture on canvas is you as I see you. No brush or paint…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
— Carson McCullers
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Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit…
— Ben Elton
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Barrons has something the rest of us don't have. I don't know what it is, but I feel it all the time, especially when we're…
— Karen Marie Moning
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The Fomorians skittered backward, away from me, looking justifiably confused. I mean, really, how many human women actually run to them? And I was a…
— P. C. Cast
Who Wrote These Swamp Quotes
85 authors contributed a total of 95 Swamp Quotes, led by these top contributors: