(353 quotes found)
“We don't go through life with it all being smooth sailing. ... We all understand situations where you know it's swim or drown. It's a choice you have to make, and sometimes we surprise ourselves, when we actually make that choice and start swimming, with how well we can do it.”
Charlize Theron
“So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.”
Mary Oliver
“Let them bestow on every airth a limb; Then open all my veins, that I may swim To thee, my Maker! in that crimson lake; Then place my parboiled head upon a stake - Scatter my ashes - strew them in the air; - Lord! since thou know'st where all these”
James Graham
“The arena swims around him - he is gone,/ Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.”
Lord Byron
“Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety”
George Bernard Shaw
“I hate when my mind is empty and swimming at the same time.”
Elizabeth Alraune
“We are not to comprehend;the secret of roses, but maybeswimming in the incantation of roses.Or may be looking forthe song of truthbetween the morning glory,and the century.”
Sohrab Sepehri
“I didn't know anything about it, ... Now I know I definitely want to swim in college. That's my goal.”
Carl Miller
“I was a couch potato until my mother talked me into swimming,”
“The men's meet was very similar to the women's. We had a few disappointing swims, but for the most part the guys stepped up and swam their heads off.”
Brad Burnham
