English Channel Quotes

#1. Sometimes for me not throwing a tantrum is what running a marathon or swimming the English Channel must be like for others of a less-challenging emotional nature ...

Roseanne Barr

#2. For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done.

Diana Nyad

#3. In a French accent developed through a lifetime of using English I said, 'Hello sir, I would like to row the English Channel in a bath please.'
What actually arrived in the ear of the French Navy man was, 'Hello sire, I would like to fight a condom across a bath if you please.

Tim FitzHigham

#4. I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.

Felix Baumgartner

#5. I know all about you. You're the people waiting on the shoreline with the warm towels and the hot chocolate after the woman swims the English Channel.

Gwen Moore

#6. The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.

David Hewson

#7. What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that also did for Hitler's Europe.

Andrew Roberts

#8. You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

John Eldredge

#9. If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.

Lewis Gordon

#10. Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls.

Ravi Zacharias

#11. You know how, on a bright day, you can close your eyes and see an afterimage of whatever you were just looking at? It was like that.

Stephen King

#12. I was hurting. I had some ailments I was dealing with. It's not like I was holding out.

Alonzo Mourning

#13. For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

Donnie Yen

#14. I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good ... Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

Jay Leno

#15. We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera Mubasher, which is a live channel that broadcasts live press conferences and symposiums and meetings. And, of course, we have Al Jazeera commentary in Arabic.

Wadah Khanfar

#16. But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

Elias Hicks

#17. I'll never turn her away, Clyde. She's my mate. I'll protect her till my dying breath. I'll even swallow my pride and ask a favor as momentous as the one I just asked of a man who has done nothing but try to drive a wedge between her and myself.

J.L. Sheppard

#18. You won't be free from guilt if you are constantly replaying the negative memories of your past. If you're going to replay anything, replay your victories!

Joel Osteen

#19. The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential - and enemies to push us beyond it.

Robert Breault