“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.” YearsFirstsFunWaterFiveSafetyMovedClubsFive YearsSwimSchemesChampionshipFive Year OldsNational ChampionshipsWater Safety Author:Liam Tancock
“Let's care and nurture our bodies. You are looking after something from a very early stage. Like a plant, you're giving it food and water and when it grows, look at the amount of buds it gives you. Every year it flourishes and comes back time and time again. Look after yourselves and don't be embarrassed about it.” GivingYearsLooksBodyCareGrowsWaterStageAmountPlantEmbarrassedNurtureBud Author:William Katt
“I'm quite good at water skiing. Dave Clark, from the 1960s band Dave Clark Five, taught me how to water ski in Spain one year. I can do jumps too. I used to go to a club in Heathrow, but I don't do it any more, as it's given me a bad back. I was brought up in Poole, Dorset, so I've always loved watersports.” YearsI CanUsedGivenWaterCan DoFiveTaughtBandClubsSpain1960sSkisDaveSkiingWater Skiing Author:Tony Blackburn
“In a country where half a million die every year only for drinking polluted water, it is more necessary for us to do something for them.” YearsCountryDiesWaterHalfMillionsDrinking Author:Imran Khan
“Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.” WritingYearsLooksPersonsLongTwoHandsAgeSongWaterWhiteWalksFireFeetHairHundredHotWinterOld AgeUselessOrganizedWheelsChairsNinetyAlcoholicsCornBeardWhiskeyVigorousBucketsOutcastBeveragesHot WaterWhite HairRibald Author:Don Marquis
“Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.” YearsTodayChristWaterCan DoWalksStepsYears AgoGarbage Book:Reflections Source: Reflections
“I found my mind has changed over the last years. Different vulnerabilities - things that I was never vulnerable to before I am now. And vice-versa. Things I was vulnerable to then are like water off a duck's back. I have a lot less fear. I think I'm getting more determined.” ThinkingYearsMindDifferentLastsFoundWaterChangedVicesDeterminedVulnerableVulnerabilityDucksLast YearVice Versa Author:Paolo Nutini
“For two hundred years Haiti has been swimming upstream. We were the first country in which independence was won by a group of slaves - black slaves. Across the water, the country that had just achieved independence - the U.S. - still practiced slavery.” YearsFirstsHas BeensStillsTwoCountryBlackWaterGroupsHundredIndependenceSlaverySlaveSwimmingHaitiSwimming Upstream Author:Michele Montas
“You have to get into the water and learn against what seems to be the law gravity to float and dancing, or athletics takes you years before you develop a skill. But if you work at it, practicing daily, you can enable your body to do things that are utterly impossible to an untrained physic.” IfsYearsBodySeemsLawWaterImpossibleSkillsDancingYour BodyGravityFloatsAthletics Author:Karen Armstrong
“I have been waiting twenty years for someone to say to me: "You have to fight fire with fire" so that I could reply, "That's funny-I always use water."” YearsHas BeensUseFightingWaitingWaterFireTwenties Author:Howard Gossage
“I've been surfing for a couple years, in the offseason in California and in Hawaii. I'm not very good, but it's just something that to be out there in the water, no cell phone, no music... very few sports are as pure as that.” YearsSportsWaterCouplePureVery GoodPhonesCellsCaliforniaHawaiiSurfingCell PhoneOffseason Author:Troy Polamalu
“People are very adamant about maintaining a certain sound or a certain era, like, "There were three years of rap that were great, so let's just keep doing that." The genre itself is just stuck in place. It's been treading water for a while.” PeopleYearsCertainThreeSoundWaterRapStuckErasGenreThree YearsMaintainingTreadingAdamantTreading Water Author:Aesop Rock
“The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of subways, painting bridges to keep from rusting, fixing a steam pipe that is 70 years old - we'd be sunk. If we got rid of all the politicians and the policymakers in the world, the world would keep going. If you get rid of maintenance people, the whole thing breaks down.” PeopleIfsWorldYearsRealWholeTogetherWaterBreakPaintingPoliticianCivilizationBridgesKeep GoingBreaking DownPipeSteamMaintenanceFixingSubway Author:Alan Weisman
“I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.” YearsWaterHavensDrinkDrankDrink Water Author:Lou Holtz