Top 32 Swum Quotes

#1. His muscles glistened, wet as if he'd just swum a great distance. To his side, he carried a massive Shardblade, point down, sticking about a finger's width into the stone, his hand on the hilt. The Blade reflected torchlight; it was long, narrow, and straight, shaped like an enormous spike.

Brandon Sanderson

Swum Quotes #19214
#2. Count the inspirations. The exquisite inspirations that have whispered in the night. And swum away like fish in the cool of morning. Would any of them have altered the patterns of your life? The precise arrangement of your atoms?

Jay Woodman

Swum Quotes #108736
#3. It was a downriver 10-K in the mouth of the Amazon. I won in an hour and 20 minutes. It has to be one of the fastest times ever swum. The race director said there were no piranhas in that part of the Amazon. The water was too dirty.

Mark Warkentin

Swum Quotes #178076
#4. It didn't occur to us. We had swum in the ocean of religion all our lives and not gotten wet.

Jane Smiley

Swum Quotes #249896
#5. Trains are great dirty smokey thungs", said Will. "You won't like it."
Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?"
"I've never swum naked in the Thames, but I know I wouldn't like it."
"But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa ...

Cassandra Clare

Swum Quotes #301054
#6. She pictures love as a pond to be stepped into, swum around in, and then climbed out of and toweled off before getting too chilly.

Jessica Shattuck

Swum Quotes #448163
#7. We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Swum Quotes #504349
#8. Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup - it's sad and wasteful.

Ted Danson

Swum Quotes #606447
#9. She had always swum alone. She had never swum in the company of a man, and this man -- She dragged her eyes away again....
"Go in. I will follow you but don't look."
Jack laughed. "I never make promises I can't keep," he said.

Marguerite Kaye

Swum Quotes #655732
#10. Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here

Robert M. Fresco

Swum Quotes #665780
#11. I dreamt-' he began, and stopped short. It was too complex to be put into words. There was the dream itself, and there was a memory connected with it that had swum into his mind in the few seconds after waking.

George Orwell

Swum Quotes #681753
#12. ... before, we swam, and now we are swum.

Italo Calvino

Swum Quotes #745899
#13. If you've ever swum in the ocean, and you go underneath the waves, you know, you're kind of moved by the currents, but you're not being slapped around at the top of the water by the waves. And that's sort of what meditation is like.

Anderson Cooper

Swum Quotes #829735
#14. My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

Edmund White

Swum Quotes #870807
#15. I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.

Janet Evans

Swum Quotes #873522
#16. I was very, very lucky because I started swimming when most of the landmarks in the world had not been swum.

Lewis Pugh

Swum Quotes #913093
#17. The secret is in absolutely refusing to let the river beat you down. If I had to, I'd measure my progress in inches. One more inch I've swum - one less inch to swim. Once you know the secret, then nobody's river can bring you down.

Bette Greene

Swum Quotes #914244
#18. A fish does not swim it is SWUM. A bird does not FLY it is flown.

Viktor Schauberger

Swum Quotes #953848
#19. A man cannot understand hunger, until he has swum in the depths of hunger

David Rea

Swum Quotes #958582
#20. I have done everything I have ever wanted to do. I have swum with tiger sharks, been charged by lions and elephants. I have been shot three times, chased by crocodiles and, God be praised, I've made enough money that I can continue to do all the things I want to for as long as I am able.

Wilbur Smith

Swum Quotes #1011211
#21. I could not have climbed any mountains while looking from the ground ... I would not have flown ... or dived ... or surfed ... or swum ... I am not a tourist nor a spectator ... this is the life I have left, and I will not waste it like some rubber-neck

Kem

Swum Quotes #1013867
#22. He walked on water. Perhaps. But could he have *swum* on land? In matching knickers and dark glasses? With his Fountain in a Love-in-Tokyo? In pointy shoes and a puff? Would he have had the imagination?

Arundhati Roy

Swum Quotes #1069651
#23. the city swayed in a squall-like downpour. Sharks might have swum through the air,

Truman Capote

Swum Quotes #1252920
#24. I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.

Brian De Palma

Swum Quotes #1295749
#25. When you are older and have swum out into the stream of life, you'll see
there are no "good" people, little girl. We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others" ...

Kathleen Tessaro

Swum Quotes #1346921
#26. She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.

Kate Chopin

Swum Quotes #1451069
#27. I have flown and fallen, and I have swum deep and drowned, but there should be more to love than I survived it.

Lisa Mantchev

Swum Quotes #1536405
#28. Day one of our new adventure behind us, we are shocked to learn the hardest lesson of chasing a dream. When you go for it, you don't escape fear, you land in it. Fear is not a dragon to be slain once, it's an ocean to be swum daily.

Jon Acuff

Swum Quotes #1565807
#29. James started to laugh. His chin hurt where she'd smacked him twice, his foot throbbed where she'd stepped on it, and his entire body felt as if he'd swum through a rosebush, which wasn't as far off the truth as it sounded. Yet still he started to laugh.

Julia Quinn

Swum Quotes #1635826
#30. To hear Alice Keppel talk about her escape from France, one would think she had swum the Channel, with her maid between her teeth.

Ronald Greville

Swum Quotes #1637060
#31. It felt like all the blood in my body had swum up to my face , leaving the skin around my heart completely transparent.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Swum Quotes #1674777
#32. I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.

David Walliams

Swum Quotes #1695695

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