Top 100 Swallow Quotes
#1. Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.
Amy Tan
#2. I want a swallow of whiskey to take that pill," Polly yelled. "Damn things get stuck when you make me take them water.
Carolyn Brown
#3. Creativity's too big a pill; the truth's too hard to swallow. Sprinkle sugar in a straight line and we'll all inhale and follow.
Kelby Losack
#4. But what I found out that summer ... was that I could swallow whatever hit me and let it sink as if nothing had happened. So I mimicked a game that meant nothing to me now, I was going through the motions, and then it looked as if what I was doing had a purpose, but it did not.
Per Petterson
#6. I have been a swallower of lives; and to know me, just the one of me, you'll have to swallow the lot as well.
Salman Rushdie
#7. The prospect of one day being hauled out of the canal by yet another old enemy was hard for France to swallow, even more so when British and French defence specialists discussed their exit strategy in case of an overwhelming Soviet attack, and the Brits proposed a massive evacuation via Dunkirk.
Stephen Clarke
#8. Tic Tacs you actually swallow, though," Esther pointed out. "You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed.
Sarah Dessen
#9. Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.
Paullina Simons
#10. It's okay to be absurd, ridiculous, and downright irrational at times; silliness is sweet syrup that helps us swallow the bitter pills of life.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#11. I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
Gary Coleman
#12. A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
Henry Adams
#13. The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?
Bruce Chatwin
#14. Even Cronus, the Titan who literally had his kids for breakfast, would find these facts hard to swallow.
Tai
#15. I just like to know what I'm putting in my mouth before I swallow
Michelle Hodkin
#16. It's advice, not a commandment.
Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#17. I'm curious," he said, "is telling someone to relax ever helpful? It's like saying 'breathe' to someone who is hyperventilating or 'swallow' to a person who's choking. It's a completely useless admonition." "I
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
#18. I chop the broccoli into pieces with ZigZag Knife, sometimes I swallow some when Ma's not looking and she says, "Oh, no, where's that big bit gone?" but she's not really mad because raw things make us extra alive.
Emma Donoghue
#19. like the way a bird can sometimes swallow the horizon whole.
Matthew Baker
#20. How can you tell whether the ego is there or not? You will know when someone insults you. If someone insults you, swallow (accept) it with understanding.
Dada Bhagwan
#21. I admit I was drinking a Guinness ... but I did not swallow.
Kinky Friedman
#22. You have been mine before - How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar, your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, - I knew it all of yore.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#23. He took another quick swallow of the coffee. Tasted awful to him, though it was good coffee, he'd brewed it himself. A beer was what he wanted. Not to have a beer right now was like not breathing. But it was just too great a risk.
Anne Rice
#27. People are surprisingly off put just by saliva, the substance that you carry around in your mouth. You swallow it. You have no objection to it. But then it leaves your body, and you're just revolted. So it - that - just that right there to me is a fascinating thing.
Mary Roach
#28. The gospel of grace is glad tidings of great joy to all people, not condemning, miserable, hopeless pills we can't swallow.
Paul Silway
#29. Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
Victor Hugo
#30. You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow.
Julian Baggini
#31. In China we say, "You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet." Sometimes love can be ugly. But one still has to take it and swallow it.
Xiaolu Guo
#32. The Church has realized that anything and everything can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory or irreconcilable with it. The faithful will swallow it whole, so long as logical reasoning is never allowed to be brought to bear on it.
Adolf Hitler
#33. The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.
Armond White
#34. Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang "Tweet, tweet," and from his song came the whole story.
Hans Christian Andersen
#35. The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from it what it does not wish to give.
Natalie Babbitt
#36. If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.
Harry S. Truman
#37. Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.
Nora Roberts
#38. Even creating shit is hard to do. First, you need money to buy food. Then you have to chew it, eat it, and swallow. A complex process called digestion follows. Finally, you have to strain and excrete your foul smelling wonder into the world. Try doing that with a paint brush!
Jonathan Heatt
#39. She was going to burst, or fall apart. Something. She couldn't keep feeling like this. The emptiness inside her was too big; it would swallow her whole.
Lili Wilkinson
#40. I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
Sylvia Plath
#41. It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#42. Because," said the swallow man. "A friend is not someone to whom you give the things you need when the world is at war. A friend is someone to whom you give the things that you need when the world is at peace.
Gavriel Savit
#43. The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow and not integrate, like the bulimic or obese.
Marion Woodman
#44. Don't spit, swallow: there is protein and other good stuff in male semen; it's an acquired taste and, once acquired, totally addictive.
Chloe Thurlow
#45. In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.
Dejan Stojanovic
#46. Family history, of course, has its proper dietary laws. One is supposed to swallow and digest only the permitted parts of it, the halal portions of the past, drained of their redness, their blood. Unfortunately, this makes the stories less juicy ...
Salman Rushdie
#47. We're shooting the scene where I swallow your heart and you make me
spit it up again. I swallow your heart and it crawls
right out of my mouth.
You swallow my heart and flee, but I want it back now, baby. I want it back.
Richard Siken
#48. Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.
Huston Smith
#49. Change rarely happens in doses large enough to choke you. Everyday you swallow a little more and expect a little less.
Diane Meier
#50. Afraid of the tangle of words twisting around my own tongue, I swallow and place my hand against the thick wood of the Barrier.
Carrie Ryan
#51. His lips are so close to my ear I'm water and nothing and everything and melting into a wanting so desperate it burns as I swallow it down.
Tahereh Mafi
#52. We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis Diderot
#53. For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times. I know it's a problem when my husband sends the dog in to retrieve me.
Sue Monk Kidd
#54. Suddenly the anger drains out of me or maybe the sadness just decides to swallow it. It feels like the whole world should be crying. I hope that it is; I hope that if I were to walk outside our front door, I'd see the entire fucking world seizing in pain.
Marley Jacobs
#55. I want a girl that can swallow my pride.
Frank Zappa
#56. And the mountains may rise and fall, and the sun might wither away, and the sea may claim the land and swallow the sky. But you will always be mine. And the stars might fall from the heavens, and night might cloak the earth, but until darkness dies, I will always be yours.
Laura Thalassa
#57. I'm the type to swallow my blood before I swallow my pride.
Curtis Jackson
#58. Eventually, they can't speak, chew and swallow, or use the bathroom - not because those parts of their bodies no longer work but because they can't remember how.
Jane Gross
#59. I had bitten into my tongue, and I either had to spit or swallow. I swallowed. No comments, please.
Jim Butcher
#60. He smiled. "And you liked what you saw."
Oh God. She had. She really, really had. She closed her eyes and wished for a big hole to swallow her up. "I hardly even noticed you were naked.
Jill Shalvis
#61. University lectures are an obsolete practice inherited from the Middle Ages when books were scarce. Students should read, not listen. To swallow instruction from a lectern is like sipping through a straw. Lectures pander to the vanity of the lecturer and stimulate conflict between academics.
Virginia Woolf
#62. And he took another swallow of the brandy, shaking his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the worst.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#63. Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
Samuel Johnson
#64. It is one of the Laws of the Universe that when you need a big hole to swallow you up, it is never there.
Poppy Inkwell
#65. I sat upon the shore
Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
Shall I at least set my lands in order?
London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down
Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina
Quando fiam ceu chelidon - O swallow swallow
T. S. Eliot
#66. Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal.
But maybe there is also a third kind of dysphagia that comes when your heart breaks into pieces.
I can't swallow because I have that kind.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#67. I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles.
Lauren Oliver
#68. Hello? Do you see me? I'm working as creatively as possible and you want more and more and I'm out of juice and if you send me one more email I'm going to walk into the ocean and swallow water.
Cole Harmonson
#69. You must give up your right to decide what is good and evil on your own terms. That is a hard pill to swallow - choosing to live only in me. To do that, you must know me enough to trust me and learn to rest in my inherent goodness.
William Paul Young
#70. 'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous; I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.
Russell Crowe
#71. Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.
Joanne Harris
#72. Her father didn't know the half of her problems. Nobody did. Nobody ever would. She couldn't let anyone find out just how crazy she was, the secret she kept. She would fight her way out of that dark hole somehow. She had to, or it would swallow her for good.
Dana Marton
#73. It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.
Christina Rossetti
#74. I felt myself swallow hard, thinking of the full glimpse I'd just gotten, and also wondering if there was a way I could suggest that he maybe stop wearing a shirt on our runs.
Morgan Matson
#75. We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens. I'm prepared to put up with that accusation, because at least my feet aren't killing me and I don't look like a bandy ostrich.
Jo Brand
#76. If I wanted people to take me seriously as an adult, I was going to have to swallow a few tongues. Hopefully, without puking.
Jen Ashton
#77. I pointed to a low bowl filled with what purported to be stew, but then Noah said, "Are you going
to point, or are you going to eat?"
"I just like to know what I'm putting in my mouth before I swallow."
Noah arched an eyebrow, and I wanted to crawl into a hole and die.
Michelle Hodkin
#78. As to who among us is a ghost and who not I have nothing to say: it is a question we can only stare at in silence, like a bird before a snake, hoping it will not swallow us.
J.M. Coetzee
#79. Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground
Mother earth will swallow you
Lay your body down
Stephen Stills
#80. I understand that for the people who really care about you the fact that you are facing cancer is very hard to swallow. They will need time managing and dealing with their emotions just as you do.
Yilda B. Rivera
#81. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Doris Lessing
#83. Do not swallow anything Satan is trying to ram down your throat. Jesus comes first.
Joel Osteen
#84. I've hurt them . . . but pride is a hard thing to swallow when you feel like it's all you have left.
K. Bromberg
#85. There are sights too beautiful to swallow. They stay on the rim of the eye; it cannot contain them.
Olivia Laing
#86. When people fuck with you, you gotta choice. You can fuck back or swallow down. Swallow down enough times and you start to choke. Or you can learn to accept. Let go. Breathe easy.
Kit De Waal
#87. Now that all the beauty of my old life is gone, I crave it like good. A beautiful thing like this rose: I almost want to eat it, to swallow it whole to replace the beauty I've lost.
Alex Flinn
#88. There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.
Mark Rothko
#89. Just because you can put something in your mouth, chew it, swallow it, and then poop it out doesn't mean it's food. It just means you can chew it, swallow it, and poop it out.
Cameron Diaz
#90. What was it like to see Lawrie smile? I can try: it was as if a healer had placed their hands upon my chest. My kneecaps porridge, jaw tingling, no hope to swallow.
Jessie Burton
#91. Learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement is over, nature will return, and be where it was, being rather diverted than overcome by such speculations.
Gilbert Burnet
#92. They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner eyelid and listen to my skin and I can't be sure how the medication is affecting me. I can't remember how I'm supposed to feel. I can't remember my name. I have never seen my face.
Will Christopher Baer
#93. For a moment, I'm captivated. He's seducing me with his eyes. A nervous flutter swims through my stomach. I can feel my heartbeat in my throat. Pounding. Constricting. I swallow hard.
Lauren Hammond
#94. I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of seaman. And then call me up on the homophone and read it to me.
Mary Roach
#95. Don't swallow: your bulging, blushing cheeks display the saliva you want to share.
Bauvard
#96. You won't let anything bad happen to me, will you, Garrett?"
A lump the size of Massachusetts lodges in my throat. I swallow hard and try to speak past it.
"Never.
Elle Kennedy
#97. Over time her inhibitions took shelter in the corner of the room and Easter allowed the music to swallow her,
Bernice L. McFadden
#98. When you are fed with the spoon of betrayal, you can choose to spit it out and live or swallow it and die
Ikechukwu Izuakor
#99. It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.
Ally Condie
#100. What do you want to risk to get away?" he asks. I swallow past the bile corrupting my throat. "Everything," I reply. "I'll risk everything to stay with you.
Amy A. Bartol
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