Wading Quotes

#1. Mistake:the unshoveled snow was knee-deep.I kept right on wading through it. "This is because I'm a good person," I assured Doofus. "I am going to heaven,though hopefully not by way of the convent.

Jennifer Echols

#2. The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing.

Jimmy Moore

#3. We have a history when things are really horrible of wading in when no one else will.

Charlie Munger

#4. While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

Thomas Jefferson

#5. Like wading through water; That hard, that slow.

Lauren Henderson

#6. I reached Ghazipur three days ago. Here I am putting up in the house of Babu Satish Chandra Mukherji, a friend of my early age. The place is very pleasant. Close by flows the Ganga, but bathing there is troublesome, for there is no regular path, and it is hard work wading through sands.

Swami Vivekananda

#7. Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander,
Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter.

Wilfred Owen

#8. Then there were the giants. Dozens of bright-blue men, each thirty feet tall with gray frosty hair, were wading through the forests, fishing in the bay, and striding across the mountains.

Rick Riordan

#9. There you go, wading in your clodhoppers through our private territory.

Harper Lee

#10. So Crake never remembered his dreams. It's Snowman that remembers them instead. Worse than remembers: he's immersed in them, he'd wading through them, he's stuck in them. Every moment he's lived in the past few months was dreamed first by Crake. No wonder Crake screamed so much.

Margaret Atwood

#11. Rapid and repeated probing, so typical of these wading birds, is thought to allow them to build up a composite three-dimensional image of food items hidden in the sand.24

Tim Birkhead

#12. It might be the white woman or man our son or daughter will marry and the white woman or man our grandson or granddaughter will marry, all of them wading into the future until one of our line claims to be Sicilian. Leave instructions: the granddaughter of our granddaughter shall be named Cicily.

Terrance Hayes

#13. Bad things happen to everyone. Not that this was an excuse or a justification for wronging another human being. Still, all humans had this shared experience - that of suffering. No human being left this world without shedding a tear, or feeling pain, or wading into the sea of sorrow.

Sylvain Reynard

#14. Fear is as a result of drowning in discouragement; joy comes by wading in encouragement. EL

Evinda Lepins

#15. Anyone who brings up gender in the workplace is wading into deep and muddy waters. The subject itself presents a paradox, forcing us to acknowledge differences while trying to achieve the goal of being treated the same.

Sheryl Sandberg

#16. I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out.

Michael Winter

#17. Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Brene Brown

#18. It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading into one's own bad prose again, and one more time, and then once again, with the utmost concentration and taste, looking for opportunities to mine deeper.

Stewart O'Nan

#19. I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.

Amanda Burton

#20. My momma used to say that a girl had to find her prince after wading through the frogs.

Shelly Crane

#21. I would have liked to experience more of the heptapods' worldview, to feel the way they feel. Then, perhaps I could immerse myself fully in the necessity of events, as the must, instead of merely wading in its surf for the rest of my life.

Ted Chiang

#22. Balance was so elusive: either it was like this, too fast, or there was the heavy thing like wading through a swamp to get to the end of a sentence.

Edward St. Aubyn

#23. One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.

Kara Swisher

#24. Especially when you live in the Southern US of A. Winter is a novelty season, a niche job. Winter wonderland? Forget about it! You were more likely to spend it in the wading pool. One horse open sleigh? Forget about it! Unless that sleigh was a trashcan lid and that horse was a 4-wheeler.

J.V. Roberts

#25. Worst away team ever," Josh said, wading up onto land. "Not a single redshirt.

Lev Grossman

#26. Yet, if our simplification of the gospel message is our main way of communicating these ideas, our faith and the faith of those we lead will be shallow, thus only wading in simple ideas of a complex God.

Sanejo I. Leonard

#27. It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin.

Seth Godin

#28. Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

Roy Blount Jr.

#29. We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace.

David Sobel

#30. I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.

Mary Balogh

#31. Because terrible things happen to everyone. We're all just so caught up in our own crap that we don't see the sit everyone else is wading through.

Amy Harmon

#32. I had been wading up to my neck in all this niceness for years. I woke up to it, went to sleep in it. I breathed niceness and slowly it was killing me.

Erlend Loe

#33. I'm wading in, but I'm not ready to fully immerse myself yet.

Kyra Davis

#34. If wishes were horses,
we'd be wading in horse dung!

Manoj Vaz

#35. You're not to go wading in my pond again," he said. She shrugged and picked up her shoes and stockings where they lay on the path. "Very well, Your Grace, but it's a great pity. I should've liked to go swimming.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#36. I was having one of my wading through molasses mornings where I could feel myself moving and thinking and doing, but it was all happening in slow motion.

Tess Oliver

#37. Save your shaming for the girl, Doctor. If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago." He turned and started wading into the swamp. "Time is passing. I, for one, have no intention of remaining here for your betrayer to bring back the soldiers and their guns.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#38. Reality is frigid; I have to dip one toe at a time and grow accustomed to the shock before wading in further.

Jodi Picoult

#39. And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.

Terry Pratchett

#40. Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.

Joel Salatin

#41. They were just wading through the muck like everyone else.

Emma Straub

#42. Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

Jean Giraudoux

#43. Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

Ted Nugent

#44. This life is a wading pool compared to the ocean call eternity.

Todd Stocker

#45. Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning.

Jojo Moyes

#46. Serenity is found when wading into it.

Rodney Ross

#47. His skin radiates so much of the day's heat that touching him feels like wading into the lake, opening my hand, and catching one of the white shimmers of blistering afternoon sunlight bouncing across the water.

Holly Schindler

#48. The way I'd put it," said Makin, "is that Rike can't make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.

Mark Lawrence

#49. Sometimes he tries to catch her, wading frantically through earth that has turned to water, or sometimes through air. Sometimes she tries to catch him. They never catch each other, no matter what.

Colin Greenland

#50. So slip on your goggles and your reading trunks, for the sun is high. Let me leave you with one more thought. In what season of the year do we find ourselves - I'm speaking for a moment in terms of the physical world - wading through things? Surf. Kelp. Books. Summer.

Roy Blount Jr.

#51. Viola felt as if she spent her life wading through a sea of ignorance, shallow but without a shore in sight.

Kate Atkinson