Swim Quotes
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I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.
Scott Speedman
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One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.
Bob Marley
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"I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box of Twinkies, tossing them into the cart. "And Twinkies." "It is... Except that it's a cookout thrown by my mother." "And?" "And my mother doesn't cook." He looked at me waiting. "At all. My mother doesn't cook at all." "She must cook sometimes." "Nope." "Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just KNOW."
Sarah Dessen
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And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing.
Casper Van Dien
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When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
Joseph Monninger
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Can I swim against the stream, be good in bad times and places?
Philip Henry
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No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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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
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Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!
Thomas Hood
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It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting "Saturday Night Live." You either sink or swim.
Christina Aguilera
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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
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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
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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
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In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.
Travis Barker Blink-182
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Never worry about what anyone else is doing...Just swim your own race.
Dara Torres
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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
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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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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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my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.
Miriam Makeba
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The ground is my ocean, I’m the shark, and most people don’t even know how to swim.
Carlos Machado
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Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim.
Carson Kressley
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Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.
Molly Ivins
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If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air. Pollution, pollution, They got smog and sewage and mud. Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud. See the halibuts and the sturgeons Being wiped out by detergents. Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, But they don't last long if they try. Pollution, pollution, You can use the latest toothpaste, And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste.
Tom Lehrer
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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