Swim Quotes

I love the water; I love to swim.

If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.

In medicine, uncertainty is the water we swim in.

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank

Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.

I think actors have to have clear goals in term of fitness, I think it is very important. I did yoga very seriously and I think that is a wonderful exercise. I take tennis lessons, and I swim a lot.

I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.

I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.

I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. It's other things I have to hone. I can swim in that comfortably.

You walk until you come to the ocean. You don't walk or run in the ocean - you float and swim. Like this once you come to the Master, seeking stops, blossoming begins.

People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.

I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train.

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.

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The Education of Robert Nifkin

I can jump ship and swim-- that the ocean will hold me, that there's got to be more than this boat I'm in.

Ill paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad.

And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.

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.

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.

... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.

Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.

We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the ocean--the pearl is in its depths, the seaweed swims.

I look forward to the day when animals will have the right to run if they have legs, swim if they have fins, and fly if they have wings.

A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds.

The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?

To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.

I like to exercise. I always walk an hour a day, I swim 250 days a year and I do balancing exercises which take me an hour.

I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.

The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die.

I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.

my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly.

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.

On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing thing is that people still drown.

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

Dont be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

I will always take on a new challenge. I believe in jumping off the ship every now and then. If you don't, you won't really learn how to swim