Best sea & swim Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you.”

Thinking Lost Causes Forever Sea Mark Harmony Life Changing Injury Swim Rite Diving

Author:Toni Servillo

“Only the strongest players can swim in the shark-infested waters of the Masters' Seas.”

Water Player Sea Masters Swim Strongest Sharks

Book:The Education of a Speculator

Source: The Education of a Speculator

“Tucker was my safe place for three years, my secure dock in a sea of indecision as I dealt with my father's illness and death. And now I had to sink or swim. It was time to let go...and move on. Slowly, I pushed off from the dock that was Tucker Montgomery and prepared to swim...praying I wouldn't drown.”

“I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.”

Littles Left Boys Sea Pride Summer Glory Mercy Depth Broke Streams Length Swim Weary Rude Wanton Bladder

Author:William Shakespeare

“I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea, infinity, lies before you.”

Lying White Sea Sky Color Swim Infinity Beaten Torn

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.”

Should Mind Firsts Lasts Sea Food Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Swim Thrice Claret

Author:Jonathan Swift

“...But some of the ideas are ridiculous. Such as matching the hatch. Of course there are times when you have a fly as alike as possible to the flies on the water. But casting and accuracy and how you present your fly and how fast it gets there and how fast it swims are all more important than matching the hatch.”

Important Ideas Courses Water Sea Rivers Fishes Ridiculous Boat Lakes Fishing Swim Casting Accuracy Matching

Author:Charles Ritz

“From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.”

Art Said Whole Names Water Born Lines Chance Poor Boys Sea Dying Fields Rivers Lays Lips Caught Fishes Boat Streams Lakes Fishing Swim Shore Estates Hook Inheritance Prey My Boys Pastures Oxen

Author:Ovid

“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.”

Water Sea Rivers Rounds Caught Fishes Boat Lakes Good Times Fishing Swim Fisherman

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.”

Men Humans Nature Walks Animal Opinion Air Sea Land Foolish Paris Japan Swim Rome Peru

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.”

Children Important Sea Affair Fishes Swim Children Love

Author:P. L. Travers

“Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.”

Sea Teaching Rivers Currents Swim Great Teaching

Author:Rajneesh

“I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.”

Art Motivation Stuff Process Clear Sea Conditions Draws Flow Swim Delicate Membranes

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be?”

Life Night Found Morning Sea Hair Gold Swim Noon

Author:Jim Morrison

“This Is Your Time, This Is Your Dance. Live Every Moment, Leave Nothing To Chance. Swim In The Sea. Drink Of The Deep, Embrace The Mystery Of All You Could Be. What if Tomorrow? And What If Today? Faced With The Question, Oh What Would You Say?”

Ifs Moments Today Chance Mystery Sea Tomorrow Drink Embrace What If Swim Live Every Moment

Book:This Is Your Time: Make Every Moment Count

Source: This Is Your Time: Make Every Moment Count

“I had a dream , okay, go do a swim off Antarctica, and I'd train in Gauteng and just dive into the sea off Antarctica... You've really got to do a simulated test as best you can in South Africa before you go off.”

Dream Sea Tests Okay Train South Swim South Africa I Had A Dream Antarctica

Author:Lewis Pugh

“Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I swim.”

Wells Sea Students Buddhist Swim My Best Friend

Author:Diana L. Eck

“Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.”

Want Speak Sea Train Swim Bathing

Author:Vivien Leigh

“The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.”

People Moving Sea Military Fishes Swim Anarchy Heresy Guerrillas Fish Tanks Guerrilla Warfare

Author:Mao Zedong

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”

Source: The Conduct of Life

“I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.”

Long School Used Sea Seasons Moved Distance Rough Swim Swimming Pool Long Distance Diving I Love Swimming

Author:Jo Brand

“All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.”

“If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between.”

Ifs Needs Hands Together Certain Dark Sea Lucky Summer Seasons Absolutes Seven Eight Swim Exhaustion Lucky You Hands Together

Book:Sleeping in Flame

Source: Sleeping in Flame

“It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.”

Teach Air Sea Swim Swings Crow Jolly Bristol

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.”

Inspirational Self Past Peace Power Sea Slave Self Respect Swim Sublime Plunge New Self

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.”

Source: The Dharma Bums

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