Best Swamps Quotes
109 Swamps quotes by 96 unique authors
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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
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We'll have to deal with the networks. One of the ways to do that is to drain the swamp they live in. And that means…
— Donald Rumsfeld
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Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp…
— Blaise Cendrars
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The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they led…
— John Haines
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We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as Germans the Polish…
— Friedrich Engels
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Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League,…
— Mark Steyn
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I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
— Terry Gilliam
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I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants…
— Keri Hulme
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in…
— Loren Eiseley
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With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the…
— Charles Tilly
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May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late.
— George Washington
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When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Here's a good gag if you go swimming in a swamp and when you come out you're all covered with leeches. Just say, "Hey, has…
— Jack Handey
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This is a unique aquarium in that a large portion of its collection features freshwater species, and it specializes in fish, amphibians and reptiles from…
— John Grant
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Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost…
— Steven Rattner
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If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.
— Richard Bach
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With women, my wiring shorts out. My senses respond to the physical and the chemical, the scent and sheen of her. Evil could not possibly…
— Paul Levine
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Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp
— Bob Dylan
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The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption…
— John Bunyan
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When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven…
— Maile Meloy
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Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators,…
— Robert R. McCammon
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But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.
— George W. Bush
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Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In our swamp of media sensationalism and group-speak, BOSTON REVIEW stands out as a bold voice for reason and argument, one of the very, very…
— Martha C. Nussbaum
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