Down Quote by George Downing

A family, like a canoe, must be steered or paddled, or it won't take you where you want to go.

— William J Doherty

“As I paddled on, my heartbeat boomed like a dull motor in my ears. I am I am I am.”

— Sylvia Plath

“Kyle strained his eyes to the horizon while they paddled swiftly through the fog.”

— Nicholai Ball

“Sunk in the mud, it took all my strength to flip it over. I lifted out the oar and inspected the bottom for holes…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“It was something they'd done a thousand times before. If Jamie went surfing with a mate and paddled in first, he always took time…

— Kirsty Eagar

And he paddled away in his douche canoe.

— Joe Hill

“Her heart slipped out of its life jacket and paddled toward the deep end of stupid, where the water was way over its head”

— Samanthe Beck

In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums,…

— Brendan Gill

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

— Barbara Tuchman

“Black met black on the distant horizon, the stars alone distinguishing sky from lake. On the sand below, Silver Beach glittered at the water's…

— Erin Farwell

There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger:…

— Anonymous

Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the…

— David Lowery