"People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but……" — Gertrude Ederle
"People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could."
More Channel Quotes
- I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
- Goals help you channel your energy into action. — Les Brown
- We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more… — David Cameron
- Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced… — Gary Allan
- It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel. — James Allen
- I normally ignore the History Channel. — Diablo Cody
- The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. — Piet Mondrian
- He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his… — Paul Klee
- I think we came out the last couple of game and have been able to get it going. The first… — Jarome Iginla
- The rest of the world loves soccer. Surely we must be missing something. Uh, isn't that what the Russians told… — Unknown Author
- Channel your energy. Focus. — Carl Lewis
- She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident… — W. Somerset Maugham