Rowed Quotes

#1. So we rowed, our only hope that we could reach the mainland before nightfall reached us.

Ransom Riggs

#2. I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.

Aoife O'Donovan

#3. I grew up in New England at the edge of the Atlantic and have for many years been an avid rower. I've rowed in various places, including the Ganges in India, the River Shannon in Ireland, and the Sea of Galilee.

Rosemary Mahoney

#4. In two days going they rowed right up the Long Lake and passed out into the River Running, and now they could all see the Lonely Mountain towering grim and tall before them. The stream was strong and their going slow.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. I was lost
And sang my broken-down songs in the hell of the hour.
Then in my heart moved an oar,
And I was found by a breeze from a door in the sea of forms
And was rowed to the cherry trees on the shore.

Stan Rice

#6. What mattered more than how hard a man rowed was how well everything he did in the boat harmonized with what the other fellows were doing. And a man couldn't harmonize with his crewmates unless he opened his heart to them. He had to care about his crew.

Daniel James Brown

#7. He fell asleep and again dreamt of being rowed by two myrtle trees, except this time they rowed through the stars to the moon, and it was quiet, and while everything went on forever the stars were as knowable and as safe and as comforting a world as that of the rainforested rivers.

Richard Flanagan

#8. Hauled up our wine-casks, and hove them overboard, tied one to the other by a long line. Then the crew took to the boats and rowed shorewards, singing as they went, and drawing after them the long bobbing procession of casks, like

Kenneth Grahame

#9. Joe, when you really start trusting those other boys, you will feel a power at work within you that is far beyond anything you've ever imagined. Sometimes, you will feel as if you have rowed right off the planet and are rowing among the stars.

Daniel James Brown

#10. The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that.

Hugh Laurie

#12. Anyone who has not rowed in a really close boatrace cannot comprehend the level of pain.

Daniel Topolski

#13. The Transitoriness of Life
To what may man's life be compared?
To a boat which rowed away,
Far in the sea, and left no track,
In the morning of the day.
Shami Mansai

Reiko Chiba

#14. It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle.

Meg Rosoff

#15. At least not until the Terror took hold of him. Not until he saw, night after night, a little boat being rowed across the river. Not until he saw it return at dawn. Not until he saw what his Untouchable son had touched. More than touched.
Enter.
Loved.

Arundhati Roy

#16. It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.

Steve Jurvetson

#17. When times are bad, people feel compelled to overeat.

Don DeLillo

#18. That's something we all want to know, isn't it? Is there a "purpose" to our form and substance? Or are we simply the random result of billions of years of chemical reactions and accidents influenced by pressures from the environment? ... "
-Jules, BOOM

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

#19. Are you children of God" he asked. I almost burst out laughing, managing to bite mny tongue before it erupted.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#20. I'll never stop appreciating how lucky I am.

Cat Deeley

#21. When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it's ugly looking - and I think bodybuilding has become ugly looking.

Joe Gold

#22. emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers

Stephen King

#23. Boys don't smell the same as girls. They have a pungent, leathery, underneath smell, like old rope, like damp dogs.

Margaret Atwood

#24. Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

Ashton Kutcher

#25. Fallon rolled her eyes. "How am I going to deal with the rest of my life? I'm pretty damn sure if I don't get laid soon, I'm gonna hump his face!

Toni Aleo

#26. Real ability is the child of God-given talent and rock solid diligence. Nobody maintains ability without hard work. Nobody.

Cung Le

#27. Love is an ocean of emotion, No waters however can quench love nor can floods drown it

Julie Gamble

#28. As long as we complain, we remain stuck in our problems. But a thankful attitude brings deliverance and makes God smile.

Joyce Meyer