Swim Quotes

732 Swim quotes by 575 unique authors

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I… — C.S. Lewis
Pirate Captain Jim "Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim "But Captain Jim, I cannot swim." "Then you must steer us through the gale." "But Captain… — Shel Silverstein
What, did you think," she asked, laughing as he struggled up the bank, "that I, a Gaulish maiden, could not swim?" "I did not think… — G.A. Henty
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone… — Jack Kerouac
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. — Edsger Dijkstra
But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub… — Dave Eggers
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim. — Frida Kahlo
The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas… — John Cleese
Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and… — Katherine Anne Porter
The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim… — Elizabeth Gilbert
She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim. — Marilyn French
You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed… — Daniel Handler
My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The… — Daniel Pinkwater
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the… — James Dean
Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving.… — Sue Monk Kidd
She was a sea: and I had to swim in her. — Clive Barker
But one kiss levitates above all the others. The intersection of function and desire. The I do kiss. The I’ll love you through a brick… — Jeffrey McDaniel
Most men will not swim before they are able to.” Is that not witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth,… — Hermann Hesse
You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters,… — Gary Larson
Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the… — Joseph Conrad
I can't even dial one phone number right away. But you strained your own body to go and see them. I was surprised. The frightened… — Arina Tanemura
One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to… — Wendelin Van Draanen
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. — William Faulkner
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. — Cathy Hopkins

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