Swings Quotes

• It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

  Duke Ellington

  Inspirational, Mean Girls, Music

  1965 Of trumpeter Bubber Miley.'The Most Essential Instrument', in Jazz Journal, Dec.

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• You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Thinking, Funny Golf

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• Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts

  James Hunt

  Racing, Luck, Up And Down

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• To swing or not to swing? Swing.

  Brendan Fraser

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• Remember: life is a rhythm between day and night, summer and winter. It is a continuous rhythm. Never stop anywhere! Be moving! And the bigger the swing, the deeper your experience will be.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Summer, Moving

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• I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Hitting Home Runs, Missing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Blessing, Boredom

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.66, Publishdrive

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• Cling, swing, Spring, sing, Swing up into the apple tree.

  T. S. Eliot

  Spring, Apples, Tree

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The empty swing set reminds us of this--
  that bad won't be bad forever,
  and what is good can sometimes last
  a long, long time.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Long, Forever, Lasts

  Jacqueline Woodson (2014). “Brown Girl Dreaming”, p.117, Penguin

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• Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.

  Henry Ford

  Passion, Eye, Enthusiasm For Life

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• A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

  Bill Vaughan

  Happiness, Baby, Children

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• Friendship is a tree to take shelter from the storm, to find shade from the blazing sun, to climb its bratches to get a better view, and to swing from when we're happy.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Friends, Views, Tree

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• Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

  Arnold Palmer

  Greatness, Ideas, Perfect

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• If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Ifs

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1884). “Treasure Island”, p.15

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• Maybe love is like a pendulum. It swings back and forth, slowly, steadily, and sometimes you don't know where it will come to rest.

  Tracey Garvis-Graves

  Love Is, Sometimes, Pendulums

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• I’m not afraid to take a swing and miss.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Missing, Not Afraid

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• To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

  Katherine Paterson

  Inspirational, Fear, Cancer

  Katherine Paterson (2009). “Jacob Have I Loved”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.

  Maya Angelou

  Eye, Fire, Feet

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.135, Random House

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  My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

  Hank Aaron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• The doorway to success swings outward not inward.

  Robin Sharma

  Inward, Doorways

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.100, Jaico Publishing House

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• If I have a swing, I have a shot.

  Bubba Watson

  Shots, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

  Sam Snead

  Practice, Mind, Habit

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• Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

  Albert Einstein

  Politics, Anarchy, Illusion

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.38, Princeton University Press

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• A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Uplifting, Stars, Self Esteem

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• What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.

  George V. Higgins

  Merry Go Round, Rounds, Loses

  George V. Higgins (2012). “Defending Billy Ryan”, p.78, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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