Swim Quotes - Page 6

• She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.

  Marilyn French

  Teach

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• 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 by the long shadow that is cast by my accomplishments.

  Daniel Handler

  Ocean, Long, Accomplishment

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• 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 Education of Robert Nifkin

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Believe, Parent, Stronger

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• 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 water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.

  James Dean

  Water, Choices, Crooks

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• 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. Who wanted only to belong to herself.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Here I Am, Dolphins, Diving

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• She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.

  Clive Barker

  Sea

  Clive Barker (1986). “Clive Barker's Books of Blood”, Berkley

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• 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 wall kiss. Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Wall, Love You, Kissing

  Jeffrey McDaniel (2002). “Splinter Factory”, p.55, Manic D Press

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• 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, Forgets He's Shark Food'.

  Gary Larson

  Men, Sharks, Water

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• 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 same thing.

  Joseph Conrad

  Suicidal, Mean, Thinking

  Joseph Conrad “The Secret Sharer and Other Stories”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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 little me had always wondered how to swim through the vast ocean, but you didn't even want a ship. You wanted wings. I thought you were amazing.

  Arina Tanemura

  Ocean, Wings, Numbers

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• 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 see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Hate, Character, Choices

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.85, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.

  Jade Edmistone

  Motivational, Sports, Fun

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• I feel like Aaron brings out the best in me

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• I want to get out of the way of the actors. I want to get out of their eye lines. I want to them to stop thinking they're making a movie. I want them to just go and live. It's like you take these great actors and put them in an aquarium of life, and just watch them swim. That's what makes editing tough because you get all these beautiful, unplanned moments.

  Derek Cianfrance

  Beautiful, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Ocean, Rushing

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves. It has nothing to do with how many times you win or lose. It has no relation to where you finish in a race or whether you break world records. But it does have everything to do with having the vision to dream, the courage to recover from adversity and the determination never to be shifted from your goals.

  Kieren Perkins

  Motivational, Sports, Dream

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• People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.

  Charles Darwin

  Swimming, Science, Animal

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.453, VM eBooks

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• What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to all my swim meets and I could hear his whistle when my head was underwater, even if he did yell at me afterward for not trying harder. I miss going to the library. I miss the smell of clothes fresh out of the dryer. I miss diving off the highest board and nailing the landing. I miss waffles" - p. 272.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Smell

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• Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive

  Cassandra Clare

  Struggle, Fate, Trying

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually, however, religions became aquariums. Then hatcheries. From farm fingerling to frozen fish stick is a short swim.

  Tom Robbins

  Aquariums, Soul, Ponds

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.194, Bantam

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• Girls don’t fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, don’t snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while they’ve given up and try to lure someone else.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Girl, Running, Fighting

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• It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim would come then, to the island they would share. One day surely the wars would end, and Jim would come home, if only to lie broken in MacMurrough’s arms, he would come to his island home. And MacMurrough would have it built for him, brick by brick, washed by the rain and the reckless sea. In the living stream they’d swim a season. For maybe it was true that no man is an island: but he believed that two very well might be.

  Jamie O'Neill

  War, Lying, Rain

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• Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow!

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Deep Water, Water, Shallow

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• I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

  Jack Kerouac

  Swimming, Rivers, Hardship

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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