Swim Quotes
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Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that
Virginia Woolf -
Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock.
Nick Mason Pink Floyd
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I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner -
And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.
Bennett Madison -
When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
Joseph Monninger -
In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.
Vivien Leigh
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Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?
Tim Finn Crowded House -
Never worry about what anyone else is doing...Just swim your own race.
Dara Torres -
The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
It is hard to teach an old dog to sit, as well as it is difficult to teach an old Laplandian rafter to swim.
Arto Paasilinna -
If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!
John Lennon The Beatles
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Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!
Thomas Hood -
If it doesn't swim, run, or fly, or isn't green and grow in the ground, don't eat it.
Charles Poliquin -
It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
Lord Byron -
When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.
Tom Cruise -
I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.
Vladimir Putin -
I can't swim. I can float. But nothing could prepare me for that, to be honest. I mean, cold is cold and this was quite extreme. I actually treasure that experience, because it was challenging enough for me to discover new strength in me. Especially the discipline and the ability to concentrate and focus so much on one thing that I can overcome some obstacles and boundaries.
Alicja Bachleda-Curus
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim.
Bono U2 -
When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
William Sloane Coffin -
We're all born into this river without knowing how to swim, And eventually we learn how to keep this water under our chins
Eyedea -
my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.
Miriam Makeba