Top 100 Water Swim Quotes
#1. What's most troubling is the open water swim. It's windy, the waves are getting in your face and the water is a bit dirty. And there's silly things like you can't touch the bottom if you swallow a mouthful of water.
Greg James
#2. By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.
Steve Erickson
#3. I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.
Donald Miller
#4. But we all live somewhere and must swim in the water around us. I can't help but deal with the realities of life as I experience them in the United States.
Kevin DeYoung
#5. Try seeing, feeling, and tasting the water you swim in the way a land animal might perceive it. You may find the experience fascinating -- and mind-expanding.
Erin Meyer
#6. Flying is something we cant do. We can't swim for years under water in the ocean either. but, we can always have a friend, and no one cannot.
Sydney Wilhelmy
#7. I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim.
Wilford Brimley
#8. When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.
Dustin Clare
#9. I'm a curious person, and I always like to test new waters, and I've always jumped into the cold water and then started to think about how to swim.
Jochen Zeitz
#10. On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
#11. It's always been clear to me, as it was to Michel Thomas himself, that learning to speak a new language is like learning to swim or dance - you don't start with books or notes on swimming or dance. You get into the water, or on the dance floor, with a good coach, and get on with it.
Akshay Bakaya
#12. In a relativistic universe you don't cling to anything, you learn to swim. And you know what swimming is - it's kind of a relaxed attitude with the water. In which you don't keep yourself afloat by holding the water, but by a certain giving to it.
Alan W. Watts
#13. Lord of hosts! When I swim in the merciful waters of your grace I find that I can neither plumb nor measure the depths.
Menno Simons
#14. Too often we attempt to teach people to swim in a classroom. If you have ever taken swimming lessons, you immediately get the importance of getting in the water and practicing under the watchful eye of a swimming rabbi. Jesus invited the original twelve to go swimming with Him.
Ed Stetzer
#15. We Pisceans know how to swim without water
Munia Khan
#16. Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.
Bob Marley
#17. When I swim now, I step into the water as though absentmindedly touching a scar.
Leanne Shapton
#18. There will always be sharks in the water. Nothing you can do about it except be careful where you swim." "Your
Maria V. Snyder
#19. Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.
Fatema Mernissi
#20. The food in the hostel mess is worst of a kind. The grief in my words reach easily to those who have "been there and done that" Chapatti in the meal is either so uncooked or overly cooked and you can only expect dal in the ocean of water when you are ready to swim.
Parul Wadhwa
#21. One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim ...
Bob Marley
#22. Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group and someone decides to go for a swim or walk to the water. The ocean is a giant stage. It is natural that the others watch, if only for a moment.
Emily Giffin
#23. Our pool is outdoors, but it's heated, and I've got one of those machines that produces waves you have to swim against; like a jogging treadmill, really, only it's in water. Basically, it means you can have a small pool, swim for miles, and get nowhere.
Rupert Penry-Jones
#24. This is precisely why one significant mistake students sometimes make in learning math and science is jumping into the water before they learn to swim.
Barbara Oakley
#26. Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.
Charles Darwin
#27. He was smooth water - effortless in refinement but just like still water, dangerous if you couldn't swim.
Pepper Winters
#28. If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
Bo Burnham
#29. I started at a 'learn to swim' scheme when I was about five-years-old. I did it to learn water safety, but it was fun and I loved the water. I went to a club, moved up through the ranks and got better and better before taking part in my first national championships.
Liam Tancock
#30. It didn't matter to him, he realized, whether he had to swim the distance or walk on water, as wonderful as the latter was. What mattered was that Jesus was with him. Perhaps he was beginning to trust him after all, even if it was only in baby steps.
Wm. Paul Young
#31. Our whole theory of education is based on the absurd notion that we must learn to swim on land before tackling the water. It applies to the pursuit of the arts as well as to the pursuit of knowledge.
Henry Miller
#32. I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.
Carlos Mencia
#33. I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#34. For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.
Xenophon
#35. Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#36. But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.
Katie Kacvinsky
#37. The water that scares you rejuvenates me. For me I can swim, and swim I shall.
Elif Shafak
#39. Being alone with him was a bad idea, like playing around water when you can't swim.
R.S. Grey
#40. I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.
Summer Sanders
#41. This wise old whiskery fish swims up to three young fish and goes, 'Morning, boys, how's the water?' and swims away; and the three young fish watch him swim away and look at each other and go, 'What the fuck is water?' and swim away.
David Foster Wallace
#42. When he was young, his father told him that black people didn't like water because they were brought over on slave ships. What did a black man want to swim for? The ocean floor was already littered with black men.
Yaa Gyasi
#43. If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.
Chuck Klosterman
#44. May the memory of the pain leave your mind instantly, and the memory of the person fill your heart forever
When anger dies, forgiveness is born
Love is like water - you can drown instantly, or swim in it forever
Karlene Logan
#45. There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.
James Dean
#46. We're going to swim it."
I flipped forward a few pages. "Underwater."
Jenks blinked. "Rache, you gotta stop using that sugar substitute.Under the water? Do you know how cold it is?
Kim Harrison
#47. My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother excelled in water polo.
Dorothy Hamill
#48. All that could run or leap or swim
Whether in wood, water or cloud,
Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.
William Butler Yeats
#49. , Seventy-five percent of the world is water. Can you swim?
Anonymous
#50. We're all born into this river without knowing how to swim,
And eventually we learn how to keep this water under our chins
Eyedea
#51. The water in the ocean is like the water in a swimming pool, but you can't swim across it.
Robert Charles Wilson
#52. I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and my pool light was out, and as I've done a thousand times I just kind of did a little seal dive. I saw a huge bright light and I literally thought, 'That's it.'
Brooke Burns
#53. Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.
Edouard Manet
#54. One can read all one wants, and spend eternities in front of a blackboard with a tutor, but one is not going to learn to swim until one gets in the water.
David Mamet
#55. In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.
Henry A. Kissinger
#56. If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.
Bruce Lee
#57. Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.
Sam Smith
#58. People always say, well, how do you get through show business? How do you swim the waters? And how do you survive and all that? I had a very solid method, and that is team up with ambitious partners.
Garry Marshall
#59. When the river takes me I don't try to swim or stay afloat. I open my eyes and my mouth and let the water fill me up. I feel my lungs spasm but there's no pain, and I stop being afraid. The current carries me along. I'm flotsam, and I understand that flotsam is all I've ever been.
Hillary Jordan
#60. If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.
Berti Vogts
#61. The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings
Joseph Campbell
#62. It is very difficult to appreciate from the outside what a person in severe anxiety is experiencing. Brown rightly remarked about his friends 'imploring a drowning man [me] to swim when they don't know that under the water his hands and feet are tied.
Rollo May
#63. Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin goldfish bowls filled to the brim with the clearest green water and that when the fish swim to the top, as they are doing now, you are devilishly charming?
Margaret Mitchell
#64. I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.
Amanda Beard
#65. Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
Frank Herbert
#66. I'm going to swim 0.93 miles, ride a bike 24.8 miles, then run a final 6.2 miles. And what's all that supposed to prove? How is this any different from pouring water in an old pan with a tiny hole in the bottom?
Haruki Murakami
#67. There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?
David Foster Wallace
#68. I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.
Sherri Shepherd
#69. Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat ... I just feel really happy in the water.
David Walliams
#70. I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.
Matthew Fox
#71. Is it raining out?' the reception girl asked brightly as I filled in the registration card between sneezes and pauses to wipe water from my face with the back of my arm. 'No, my ship sank and I had to swim the last seven miles.
Bill Bryson
#72. They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could have made better time with a horse.
Madeleine L'Engle
#73. Every time I paint, I throw myself into the water
in order to learn how to swim.
Edouard Manet
#74. The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.
Pope Gregory I
#75. Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams
I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace.
Susan Cohn Rockefeller
#76. I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.
Irena Sendler
#77. Wall, digging a tunnel under the border, or taking to the water to swim
Hester Vaizey
#78. Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offering living water to all you meet.
Craig Groeschel
#79. The deeper the water, the easier it is for a shark to swim.
Ryohgo Narita
#80. The beauty of blue water touches my heart and lovingly invites me to swim with her.
Debasish Mridha
#82. jesus can walk on water, but Chick Norris can swim through land
Mestre Deputado
#83. To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Alan W. Watts
#85. I read," came his gravelly voice. "I walk. Occasionally I swim in the river." She was suddenly grateful for the darkness, as the thought of his unclothed body sliding through the water caused her to flush.
Lisa Kleypas
#87. I'll keep pretending to swim, when really all I'm doing is floating. Barely keeping my head above water. -
Colleen Hoover
#88. Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
George Bernard Shaw
#89. Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
Ivan Turgenev
#90. I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.
Liam Neeson
#91. When in doubt, take baby steps, taste the water and be cautious all the way. When assured, hit the road, jump in the sea and swim away from the shore to connect with your dreams
Sameh Elsayed
#92. Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a] without the context of history is like drowning in bloody water, dragging down those yet knowing to swim.
Chuck D
#93. People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.
William Wharton
#94. Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.
Vicki Harrison
#95. Good leaders teach you how to swim to the shore;
great leaders teach you how to walk on water.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#96. If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#97. Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you ...
Juliet Marillier
#98. I love the feeling of the weightlessness. I always love being in the water and to combine jumping off the side into the water feels like a different and fun way to be able to swim. I feel free like I could do anything
Tom Daley
#99. It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
Lord Byron
#100. Some people are swimmers and they're born to swim. They're like fish in the water. I will definitely say it's someplace that I feel at home.
Christine Swanson
