Swamp Quotes

95 Swamp quotes by 85 unique authors

When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither… — Hal Borland
The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a… — E. M. Forster
I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to… — Max Brooks
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all… — Berthold Auerbach
When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the… — Jerry Reed
I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday. — Peter Steele
The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary… — Henry David Thoreau
By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each… — Edgar Allan Poe
My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We go down there… — Charlie Day
The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him… — Mike Harding
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
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
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. — D. H. Lawrence
Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living. — Yitzhak Rabin
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
This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly. — Ron Wyden
I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footingâ€¦. Iâ€™m a cloud, congealed around a central object,… — Margaret Atwood
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
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
i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in. — Marilyn Hacker

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