Swim Quotes

The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

Swim out of your little pond.

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

I said to my girlfriend, you shouldn't eat before you swim. She said, "why not"? I said, you look fat.

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

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

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

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

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.

To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.

God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.

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

Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!

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

Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.

Every time I paint, I throw myself into the water in order to learn how to swim.

You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and noting the course of the currents.

I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.

Birds fly and fish swim and I do this.

We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions.

Though I don't like the crew, I won't sink the ship. In fact, in time of storm I'll do my best to save it. You see, we are all in this craft and must sink or swim together.

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

If it doesn't swim, run, or fly, or isn't green and grow in the ground, don't eat it.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

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

I could never swim in the ocean after seeing Jaws.

We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current.

I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.

A pelican that is wet walks with a gated limp, but a dry fish swims alone.

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

You don't have to swim faster than the shark, just faster than the person you're with.

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.

Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.

For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.

We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.