Swamps Quotes

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

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

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

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

Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.

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

Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building erected on piles. The piles are driven down from above into the swamp, but not down to any natural or 'given' base; and if we stop driving the piles deeper, it is not because we have reached firm ground. We simply stop when we are satisfied that the piles are firm enough to carry the structure, at least for the time being.

Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.

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.

With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of 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.

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

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.

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

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.

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.

Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They'll probably offer me lemonade." Excuse me? You're going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while I plow a swamp with a goat's horn?" Yes, ma'am. And I aim to wear my seamless shirt while you do it.

Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers." I now perceivedthe fitness of the term. This was the most perfectly swamped of all the roads I ever saw. Nature must have coöperated with art here.

Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.

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

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.

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

You don't know me yet," I said. "Rory was telling me she lives in a swamp," Charlotte said. "That's right," I said, turning up my accent a little. "These are the very first shoes I've ever owned. They sure do pinch my feet." Jerome gave a little snort.

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

I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.

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

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

Barrons has something the rest of us don't have. I don't know what it is, but I feel it all the time, especially when we're standing close. Beneath the expensive clothes, unplaceable accent, and cultured veneer, there's something that never crawled all the way out of the swamp. It didn't want to. It likes it there.

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

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

I can't make something 'useful' to me in a writing sense for a very long time. I don't have any journalistic instinct. And I do keep a journal, but it's neither very revealing nor fruitful for work. Stuff just bubbles up from the swamp later.

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

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

If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.

What gave it away? When she loaded me bound and gagged into the back of her truck? Or when she actually said. "I'm ready to kill you and throw your body inn the swamp? "Hey for a while there, it looked like you were going to talk your way out of it. I didn't want to interfere.

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.

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

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.