Swim Quotes

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

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

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

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.

I can't drown my demons. They know how to swim.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

A sage once said, ‘How shall I open my heart, oh friend? It is forbidden for me to speak. I am about to die for lack of a kindred soul to understand my misery. Simply by looking in her eyes I find the beloved of my heart. But rare is such a soul who swims in ecstatic bliss on the high tide of heavenly love.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

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

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

You know you're smarter than all of them, right?" Hale said flatly. "In fact, if you wanted to PROVE it..." He glanced at the blackjack tables. Simon shook his head. "I don't count cards, Hale." "Don't?" Hale smiled. "Or won't? You know, technically, it's not illegal." "But it's frowned upon." Sweat beaded at Simon's brow. He sounded like someone had just suggested he swim after eating... run with scissors... "It is SERIOUSLY frowned upon.

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting "Saturday Night Live." You either sink or swim.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim through your blood stream and tell funny jokes to each other. When they reach your brain,you hear what they're saying and that boosts your health and happiness. "Knock Knock... Who's There?.. Little endorphin... Little endorphin who?... Little Endorphin Annie." And then the endorphins laugh and then you laugh. See? Its Science.

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it?

Lord of hosts! When I swim in the merciful waters of your grace I find that I can neither plumb nor measure the depths.

I think I was a mermaid and I used to swim the shores or Hawaii and used to pop up and see coconuts and pineapples everywhere.

You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but... If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone.

If you want to fly with the eagles, don’t swim with the ducks!

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

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

A fish does not swim it is SWUM. A bird does not FLY it is flown.

The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.

Swim out of your little pond.

It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special.

This Is Your Time, This Is Your Dance. Live Every Moment, Leave Nothing To Chance. Swim In The Sea. Drink Of The Deep, Embrace The Mystery Of All You Could Be. What if Tomorrow? And What If Today? Faced With The Question, Oh What Would You Say?

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.

I swim when I am injured. What the best guys do is so hard. Michael Phelps is the best.

It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically, or sexually. Always there seems something ahead, the next poem or story, visible, at least, apprehensible, but unreachable. To perceive it at all is to be haunted by it; some sound, some tone, becomes a torment — the poem embodying that sound seems to exist somewhere already finished. It’s like a lighthouse, except that, as one swims towards it, it backs away.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.

People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.

Never worry about what anyone else is doing...Just swim your own race.

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.