Swim Quotes - Page 12

• Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon - all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beauty, Education, Stress

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.94

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• Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Flags, Woods

  Statement at Rochefort, July 1815.

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• Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.

  Thomas Browne

  Art, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Sir Thomas Browne, Claire Preston (1995). “Selected Writings”, p.155, Psychology Press

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• Birds fly and fish swim and I do this.

  B.J. Penn

  Mma, Bird, Fishes

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• I've always believed that if you cannot do it, then you should not do it.Only when it comes to the point where you've literally dug yourself into a hole, where it's sink or swim, is that viable to me.

  El-P

  Holes, Should, Always Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sport can be used for messaging, for example, making the connections between shin guards or a helmet that protects you, and protection in terms of HIV and AIDS. There has also been a very active program in Africa called 'Kick Polio out of Africa,' where soccer players have spoken out in terms of polio. There is also going to be a swim for malaria.

  Carol Bellamy

  Soccer, Sports, Player

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• Ive got to get my real skills up; like, I got to get my skills up, cause in case of a crazy catastrophe, I might have to learn how to swim.

  Theophilus London

  Crazy, Real, Skills

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• A fish does not swim it is SWUM. A bird does not FLY it is flown.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Bird, Doe, Fishes

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• Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It's bad enough accounting for the origin of such things once, but the thought of producing them several times according to the modern synthetic theory makes my head swim

  Frank B. Salisbury

  Eye, Squids, Example

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• Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop. the water that scares you rejuvenates me. For unlike you I can swim, and swim I shall. The ocean is my homeland. If you are with me, come to the ocean. If not, stop interfering with me and go back to the chicken coop.

  Elif Safak

  Children, Father, Ocean

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• God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Running, Animal, Order

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• What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

  Albert Einstein

  Water, Doe, Significant

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Lakes

  "Dylan Moran: Monster". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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• For this relay there was a little more pressure because it's the 200, you have to make sure you swim it smart. The 100 was more about energy.

  Michelle Williams

  Smart, Swimming, Energy

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• I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.

  Debbie Meyer

  Girl, School, Opportunity

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• Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Morning, Lakes, Calm Mind

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• Learn to swim. It is a sport all the peasants can play.

  Mao Zedong

  Sports, Play, Peasants

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• I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.

  Richard Harris

  Grief, Neurosis, Pool

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• If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would go more places. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less spinach. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles.

  Don Herold

  Mistake, Ice, Rivers

  "If I Had My Life to Live Over" by Don Herold, www.beliefnet.com. October 1953.

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• I think it's really hard to say now what makes a show kind of sink or swim, and what creates longevity. For instance, I think that Survivor is a very well produced show. It's very simple, it's very elemental, and I think it gets into big issues. I think American Idol has been an amazing show for many, many seasons.

  Dan Cutforth

  Simple, Thinking, Idols

  "Reality Check: Dan Cutforth On What Keeps ‘Top Chef’ Sharp, Cutting Through The Clutter & What’s Next". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. June 16, 2014.

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• I think there is more creative freedom as a solo artist by far because you might get a group push back on an idea because it's more of a democratic process. You can sink or swim on your own ideas on a solo project.

  Myka 9

  Thinking, Artist, Ideas

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• After I finished the Atlantic swim I said "never again," but it didn't take long for me to change my mind. I like to push my limits. I want to raise money for cancer research and to inspire others to follow their dreams.

  Benoit Lecomte

  Dream, Cancer, Long

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• I go into a meditative state but I don't follow a path that people who meditate take, like sitting in a room and getting quiet. It is when I swim that I meditate.

  Benoit Lecomte

  People, Sitting, Rooms

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• The moments that you share with a person do not stop when that person is not in your life anymore. The relationship that I had with my father did not stop when he passed away. An example is me doing the Pacific swim. If I didn't have the father that I had I wouldn't be doing this. We had a close connection in life, and I still carry that connection in following my dream. This is because of my parents, the closeness that we had and what we share together.

  Benoit Lecomte

  Dream, Father, Parent

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• Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

  Jim Rohn

  Disappointment, Wind, Bridges

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