Top 70 Paddle On Quotes
#1. Most people don't want to be saved. Besides, if you keep bailing everybody out, they'll never learn to paddle on their own.
Lauren Oliver
#2. When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles ...
... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.
Dr. Seuss
#3. This wasn't shit creek. This wasn't no paddle. This was shit ocean. This was I can't even see land.
Brent Weeks
#4. The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets.
Qurratulain Hyder
#5. Be a duck, remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.
Michael Caine
#6. We're wasting time here. I've got a sweet ass to paddle. Some legs to spread ...
Starla Kaye
#7. Darius was clearly of the opinion
That the air is also man's dominion,
And that, with paddle or fins or pinion,
We soon or late
Shall navigate
The azure, as now we sail the sea.
John Townsend Trowbridge
#8. I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.
Vanessa Hudgens
#9. There is a wisdom in the wave - high-born, beautiful - for those who would but paddle out.
Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
#10. Voyager upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And whate'er your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.
Sarah T. Bolton
#11. The steamboat left the harbor and it was something in this world, the paddle thundering, the smokestack blowing, and people lined up on the top deck waving handkerchiefs. I watched it
Sue Monk Kidd
#12. butter in a golden lump, drowning in the buttermilk. Then Ma took out the lump with a wooden paddle, into a wooden bowl, and she washed it many times in cold water, turning it over and over and working it with the paddle until the water ran clear. After that she salted it. Now
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#13. Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.
Sara Zarr
#14. He wanted to paddle her himself, then shake her, then sit her down in a chair and explain to her why she must never, ever get herself in a situation where she could be shot at again - and then throw himself at her feet.
Tara Janzen
#15. When in doubt, get the fuck out.
I turned and ran.
That's what we were taught when we were going down shit creek, nearing shitville, population unlucky you, without a shitty paddle. A good warrior knew when to retreat, and this was totally one of those moments.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#16. Interferometry, like surfing, is a search for the perfect wave. But physicists don't have to paddle around and wait.
Ken Goldberg
#17. It's a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks.
Jeff Clark
#18. Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling!
Gerry Lopez
#19. I spent money on a decent bike, a bit of kit for paddle boarding and I like bird watching so I bought a decent pair of binoculars but as far as bottles of Cristal champagne and Gucci loafers? No, blingy and showy stuff isn't me.
Bill Bailey
#20. Munro snorted. "So he's supposed to go down to the loch at half-crack o' the morning, paddle about in the frigid water for an hour or two, and then emerge? I'm finding it difficult to believe she'd see anything impressive."
Everyone laughed.
Tessa Dare
#21. When you go from the fake New Orleans of Disneyland to the real one, where the captain of the paddle-wheel steamer says it is possible to see alligators on the banks of the river, and then you don't see any, you risk feeling homesick for Disneyland.
-'City of Robots',1986
Umberto Eco
#22. That first plunge under the shore break on a chilly fall morning. It forces a sound out of one's body that is kind of a whoo-ahhh! - shocking and refreshing all at once. You become acutely aware of your body and your surroundings, which is helpful when you're about to paddle out to sea.
Brandon Boyd
#23. To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle fast, as fast as you could to stay there to stay still in the rushing current because the price of failure was to be washed up on the beach or dashed to pieces on the wharves.
Melanie McGrath
#24. Cutting shapes or letters into the blade so that it leaves a unique pattern on the subjects skin, and using special or rare types of wood to enhance the weight, strength or beauty of the paddle.
Michael Makai
#25. Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks.
Aldo Leopold
#26. What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern?
Charles Darwin
#27. Look at it! It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, man! Let me go out there and let me get one wave, just one wave before you take me in. I mean, come on man, where I am I gonna go? Cliffs on both sides! I'm not gonna paddle my way to New Zealand! Come on, compadre. Come on!
Patrick Swayze
#29. Would you like a paddle to help you up Shit Creek in your douchecanoe? Catcher
Katie Ashley
#30. The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
C.S. Lewis
#31. Everything that we want is downstream ... And you don't have even have to turn the boat and paddle downstream, just let go of the oars, the current will carry you.
Esther Hicks
#32. Now I really feel sorry for her. Your hand is as bad as Rob's paddle," Cassie shuddered.
"Thank you."
"I didn't mean it as a compliment!
Breanna Hayse
#33. If the U.S. succeeds in destroying the revolution, my status will be like that of most Cubans: I'll be up a creek without a paddle. It will be devastating for people worldwide who believe in justice.
Assata Shakur
#34. He was still a douchecanoe. The douchecanoe who was going to paddle me to safety.
Karina Halle
#35. Normally, people who are frustrated out in the water are frustrated on land. They brought their frustration with them. If you go to a beach where there are a hundred guys out, and you paddle out looking to ride waves alone, you're setting yourself up.
Laird Hamilton
#36. But I think that I have already been moving too long in a sphere which is not my own. Flying fishes can hold out for a time in the air, but soon they must splash back into the water; allow me, too, to paddle in my own element.
Ivan Turgenev
#37. It would be nice, after this was over, to take a long raft trip. Maybe Jen and I could paddle through Westwater and its ass-clenching rapids, then lounge on the banks in Moab for a week or two. That would be heaven: a raft trip with a beer in my hand instead of a rifle. I
Erik Storey
#38. If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans ... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.
Wilfrid Noyce
#39. Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.
Jacob M. Braude
#40. He was obviously one of those people who felt at home in the world-he was naturally buoyant, where Quentin felt like he had to dog-paddle constantly, exhaustingly,humiliatingly, just to get one sip of air.
Lev Grossman
#41. Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.
Simon Mainwaring
#42. There was only so much trouble you could get into before the threat of more trouble wasn't even a threat anymore. At some point, you'd waded so far in you had no choice but to paddle through the middle, if you had any chance of making it to the other side.
Kami Garcia
#43. I love hiking, paddle boarding and listening to the Veronicas.
Bindi Irwin
#44. Many books open with an author's assurance of order. One slipped into their waters with a silent paddle ... But novels commenced with hesitation or chaos. Readers were never fully in balance. A door a lock a weir opened and they rushed through, one hand holding a gunnel, the other a hat.
Michael Ondaatje
#45. I haven't got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even," said Fred, looking over at Ron's crumpled figure. "Mind you ... when he missed the fourteenth ... "
He made wild motions with his arms as though doing an upright doggy-paddle.
"Well, I'll save it for parties, eh?
J.K. Rowling
#47. You are likely to fall when you stop paddling your bicycle. Such is life. As long as you don't give up, you will never end up failing!
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.
James Prescott Joule
#49. The others laughed and Burt said, All you need are girls who paddle like boys, and you're set!
Carolyn Keene
#50. The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.
Lynn Culbreath Noel
#51. You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.
Kris Kristofferson
#52. We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.
George Downing
#53. Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell
Dan Brown
#54. I do believe we should push each other to write better songs and make better music. We do ourselves a disservice if we sit back and float along the river instead of trying to paddle and guide ourselves to a more creative place.
Bonnie Baker
#55. A canoe paddle is animate, because it causes something else to move. Even a humble onion has, in their view, a soul, since it causes action - pulling tears from the eyes.
Geraldine Brooks
#57. Have sex with Adam? I'd rather grab a defibrillator paddle and burn the other side of my face.
Faith Sullivan
#58. He was up Shit Creek without a paddle, wasn't he? Funny--his ex had always said Quinn's sense of adventure would eventually get him killed. Maybe Quinn would've listened if there'd been something about "might get you kidnapped and fucked by a couple of werewolves in rural Ukraine.
K.A. Merikan
#59. It is nothing to get wet; but the misery of these individual pricks of cold all over my body at the same instant of time made me flail the water with my paddle like a madman.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#60. I don't think your dad is ever going to forget that the first time I met him I was holding ropes and a paddle he thought I was going to use on his daughter.
Rebecca Julia Lauren
#61. I'd run my whole life long to reach you; paddle my way across Atlantic and Pacific; traverse Jungle and Desert to find you; climb cliffs and drop from the sky to rescue you. Anything to be close to you. Any way to say I love you.
Heather Kris Thomas
#62. He drank in her misery like fine wine, savoring every drop, letting it soothe his mind, his tension flowing out the fingertips that held the paddle.
Verity Ant
#63. If life is like a canoe in a raging river then wisdom is the paddle to successfully navigate.
Orrin Woodward
#64. And strangely enoughthe only emotion I ever feel, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden construction, which creates the tranquil pond and gives the mallards somewhere to paddle, and the pair of swans a place to conceal their young
Billy Collins
#65. canoe is the most graceful, the most sensitive, the most inexplicable contrivance of man. With its paddle you may dip up stars along quiet shores or steal into the very harbor of dreams. I
Meredith Nicholson
#66. I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad.
Behati Prinsloo
#67. I actually told him to f**k himself. And that if he needed an ass to paddle, he should look in the mirror.
Lexi Blake
#68. Be like a duck . . . keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. - Unknown
Jolene Brackey
#69. When the game ended, Mike laid down his control paddle. "So you've met the Nordic goddess, right?"
Aria glanced up at him warily. "Excuse me?"
Mike rolled his eyes. "Duh. Klaudia, which I'm pretty sure is Scandinavian for sex vixen.
Sara Shepard
#70. Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe.
Andy Holmes
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