Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Mancuso

I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving.

Julia Glass

There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

Francis Chan

If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.

George Mikes

Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

Jesse McCartney

I've always wanted to like, swim in a swimming pool filled with peanut butter

James A. Garfield

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Ian Thorpe

I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.

Ian Thorpe

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

Ian Thorpe

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.

Ian Thorpe

There is water in every lane, so it is OK.

James Garner

I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

‎"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.

Henry George

No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.

Gail Simmons

I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. Its a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

Seth Godin

We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

Ravi Zacharias

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

Nicholson Baker

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

Henry A. Kissinger

In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

Jon Foreman

Just as drowning cannot be equated with swimming, mere existence is not the same as abundant life. We have been offered a new way to live – a new way to be human.

John Shelby Spong

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

John Oates

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

James Joyce

I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

Mark Spitz

Swimming isn't everything, winning is.

Nick Hexum

The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.

Nastassja Kinski

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

Mao Zedong

While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water: Maybe you're afraid of sinking, Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

Joe Biden

I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama.

George A. Sheehan

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

James Patterson

Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff." "Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool.

Joan Didion

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

Eric Shanteau

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

Heidi Klum

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

Lyndon B. Johnson

President Can't Swim.