Anecdotes Quote by Jerome K. Jerome

“O boatman! Enjoy your skills and touch the river of life in your own unique ways. She will reward you with the treasures that…

— Shunya

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

— Fanny Kemble

For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing…

— Anita DeFrantz

When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts…

— Barry S. Strauss

“Sometimes I get lost in the rhythm of the paddling. I even count the strokes it takes to get me to a point of…

— Richard Proenneke

“How often have I watched, and longed to imitate when I should be free to live as I chose, a rower who had slipped…

— Marcel Proust

“Life is a river,' he once told me, 'and we all have to find a boat that floats.”

— Thad Carhart

“stopped rowing as the liquid run of that glad piping broke on him like a wave, caught him up, and possessed him utterly.”

— Kenneth Grahame

“One of the first admonitions of a good rowing coach, after the fundamentals are over, is “pull your own weight,” and the young oarsman…

— Daniel James Brown

The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!

— Phillip Thomas

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you…

— Lynn Culbreath Noel

“the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth…

— Kenneth Grahame