Swim Quotes

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson

Rock, Stand, Style

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 Watts

Faith, Trust, Yourself

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Frida Kahlo

Good, Feeling, Learned

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields

Live, Remember, Dead

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

Morning, Read, Water

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
Margaret Thatcher

Walking, Critics, Thames

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
Abraham Maslow

Away, Ocean, Gave

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Neil Armstrong

Nature, Deep, Human

I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
Lance Armstrong

Everyday, Run, Exercise

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
Lance Armstrong

Put, Team, Group

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
Tommy Douglas

Earth, Fish, Ocean

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.
Scott Weiland

Jealous, Around, Dead

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust

Time, Same, Wish

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.
Linda Ellerbee

Time, Heart, Fight

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Forget, Dead, Fish

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.
Michael J. Fox

Life, Good, God

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
Joan Rivers

Else, Top, Strive

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Ann Landers

Sorrow, Knows, Drink

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield

Best, Happen, Young

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 B. Macaulay

Freedom, Fool, Down

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.
Heidi Klum

Life, Forget, Saying

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting 'Saturday Night Live.' You either sink or swim.
Christina Aguilera

Live, Night, Saturday

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.
Heidi Klum

Sports, Special, Secret

Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
Pamela Anderson

Far, Natural, Lesson

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

Strong, Beer, Used

I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!
Bettie Page

Love, Free, Around

I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer.
Brigitte Bardot

Walk, Lucky, Longer

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm not adept at, so I'm forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There's a good feeling that comes from that.
David Byrne

Good, Feeling, Understand

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.
Liam Neeson

Age, Learned, Water

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
Stanley Baldwin

Faith, Rather, Sink

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