Best 160 quotes in «swim quotes» category

Completing a recovery session the day after a game is just as important. I like to go for a walk or a swim and have a stretch

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to swim their way to the surface. “Is that why they named you Aphros?” Leo asked as they glided down the path from the cave. “Because of the Afro?” Aphros scowled. “What do you mean?” “Nothing,” Leo said quickly.

Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of fishes, of the rivers and the sea? When he goes into the woods the birds fly before him and he finds none; when he goes to the river bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone. His secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log.

Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

Have the courage "to swim against the tide". Have the courage to be happy.

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

I am a shark, the ground is my ocean, and most people can't even swim.

I decided to try things, and I started to do things that would take me out of my comfort zone, and a lot of the times, that will cause you to either sink or swim. Really, I just lean on my inner circle and my faith to try to continue to encourage me so that I'm never out. I can be down, but I'm never out.

I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.

I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.

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.

How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.

I do what I can to sort of just stave off the clock - walk, swim, try and smoke an electric cigarette. I mean it's all bad for you. Life is bad. We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.

If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.

If I don't know how to swim and two weeks later I know how to swim, I know how to swim.

If people want insights, if they want to swim in the currents of their own time and share the experiences of their time, then it makes sense to engage with the artists of one's own time.

If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

If you submit to the ocean, you drown. If you try to control the ocean, then you're deluded. You learn how to live with the ocean. You learn how to float, to swim, to be a part of it, to be with it. That is the nature of the Pagan's relationship with nature.

I have a vision in my hand that the labels have these vaults, like Scrooge McDuck, except instead of gold coins they have these demo CDs, and sometimes they just go in there and take a swim.

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

I had a dream , okay, go do a swim off Antarctica, and I'd train in Gauteng and just dive into the sea off Antarctica... You've really got to do a simulated test as best you can in South Africa before you go off.

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

I love the water; I love to swim.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

I love to swim. I need goggles. If I don't have goggles I run in to the walls of the pool. I have no sense of directions.

I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

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

I loved Ian in the now, the way he looked at me, how he made my stomach swim, how he held my hair when I was puking my guts up after eating a bad enchilada. That’s love.

I have my own way to stay focused. I work out every day. I exercise. I swim. I meditate. I breathe.

In medicine, uncertainty is the water we swim in.

In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.

I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team.

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]

It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

I swim three times a week.

It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.

It's very important to older male homosexuality in Los Angeles to have a pool, so that cute boys will come to your house and swim around in the pool.

I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.

Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock