Drowning Quotes

Drowning Quote of the day

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.

What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory??? Graystripe:...Drowning? Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory? Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

Ric Flair is out there crying, his nose is running. He's probably drowning from the size of his nose running.

Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.

We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

I'm just here,existing at the surface of the water,not quite drowning but not quite able to breathe.

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.

When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this."

A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.

No matter how hard it gets, I’d rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss

The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.

I'm drowning in whiskey river.

I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.

Promises. I was drowning in promises.

We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self- generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace

Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.

Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.

Drowning in the sea of love Where everyone would love to drown.