Quotes About Rowing A Boat

#1. The children had been using these spatulas as oars, but rowing a boat is very hard work, particularly if one's traveling companions are too busy bragging to help out, and Violet was trying to think of a way they might move the boat faster.

Lemony Snicket

#2. Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced to do to make a living; how could such an activity bring me - a woman no less - pleasure?

Rosemary Mahoney

#3. Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy.

Mark Kennedy

#4. If you want to know why you didn't make a boat
I'll tell you. You're just out there hammering the water. You're killing fish, not rowing.

Jim Dietz

#5. Race for the pschological advantage. Sit up tall, pull in high, stay within the margins of power, and they will inevitably look over at some point to see what kind of God is blasting your boat forward.

Christopher Allsopp

#6. Then the coxswain called out, 'Ready all!' Joe turned and faced the rear of the boat, slid his seat forward, sank the white blade of his oar into the oil-black water, tensed his muscles, and waited for the command that would propel him forward into the glimmering darkness.

Daniel James Brown

#7. Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.

Esther Hicks

#8. The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!

Phillip Thomas

#9. It was always you. Always. There is nothing you can tell me that will make me look at you as anything other than my Charlie.

Christine Zolendz

#10. In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

Harry S. Truman

#12. Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

Kenichi Ohmae

#13. To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward ...

Theodore Roethke

#14. Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#15. When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are supposed to be doing all the rowing?

Vilhelm Moberg

#16. Anyone who repeats a question when they're asked one is just buying time.

Priscilla Glenn

#17. Style is important, but content comes first.

James J. Kilpatrick

#18. He always had to know who was going. I swear, if that guy was shipwrecked somewhere, and you rescued him in the god damn boat, he'd want to know who the guy that was rowing it before he'd even get in.

J.D. Salinger

#19. A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.

Jonathan Maberry

#20. You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

Mary Oliver

#21. Not everyone wants this conventional little life you're rowing your boat toward. I like my river of fire. And when it's time for me to go I fully intend to roll off my one-person dinghy into the flames and be consumed. I'm not afraid.

Zadie Smith

#22. Let the boat work - and not me!

Phillip Thomas

#23. Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters: Chirico, Magritte, Tanguy and especially Brauner (also a Romanian), who never respected the laws that Breton imposed in his manifests.

Dumitru Tepeneag