Swim Quotes

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.

A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.

Nature is our friend - trees, squirrels, grass, fields, meadows, oceans - without people. Hike. Walk. Stroll. Bike. Swim. Be in a still place and feel eternity. Have a great time. Just feel it.

Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time.

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

I swim more or less every day.

Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.

You see people swimming, and you think, oh, how wonderful to swim. But most people stand on the edge swaying back and forth, afraid to jump. They don't think they can swim.

No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.

But I like to swim. At high school, I tried out for the swim team. I shaved off all my body hair, and that extra burst of speed from all the bullies shouting Kill the fairy.

Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim

I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.

Some people put us down. But I still haven't heard of any Americans trying to swim across the border into Mexico!

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.

I swim, I do Pilates, I meditate - I think it's about keeping your stress level as low as you can.

For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.

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.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings

Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.

All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

Only the strongest players can swim in the shark-infested waters of the Masters' Seas.

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly I got to love one man till I die Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.

Live or die, sink or swim.

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

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

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'

In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.

Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow!

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

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

Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the reason why I was able to swim so well

Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be?

If you're lost, you might need to swim against the tide.

Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams--I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace.

We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.

I get to swim in the ocean every single day, which is a very, very important thing to do to stay connected.

I won't swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out.

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters

Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do.

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.