Swamps Quotes

Swamps Quote of the day

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.

Stride with a proud disdain through the swamp of human inadmissibility.

Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp.

If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.

Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.

Environmentalists changed the word jungle to rain forest, because no one would give them money to save a jungle. Same with swamps and wetlands.

Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing emissions. It's sort of like the goose that keeps on giving.

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.

A swamp is where Gators live. We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous. Only Gators get out alive.

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.

Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.

I just started calling myself 'Swamp A-.' Like, I have swamp a- right now. I had major swamp a- because I was wearing these Spanx to hold in my gut ... It's like the bayou up in that region.

I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing.

Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

We will build a great wall. We are going to drain the swamp.

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.

Nancy Pelosi said that when it comes to cleaning up government, the Democrats have drained the swamp. The only problem with that is what's left after you drain the swamp: snakes everywhere.

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death

Youever insult Bride again, I swear I'll rip your throat out and feed you to the gators in the swamp. You understand me?" - Vane

Some people really expected he could do that, would do that. They're not expecting [Donald Trump] to target Hillary [Clinton], just to clean out the swamp.

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.

Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.

We will drain the swamp in Washington, D.C., and replace it with a new government, of, and by, and for the people.

Donald Trump is my leader. And if he decides to drop the swamp and the alligator, I will drop the swamp and the alligator.

i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.

But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.