Swamps quotes
54 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps."
"I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida."
"A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it."
"Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life."
"We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States."
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"A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp."
"Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps."
"Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers." I now perceivedthe fitness of the term. This was the most perfectly swamped of all the roads I ever saw. Nature must have coöperated with art here."
"Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp"
"Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp."
"If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp."
"The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea."
"I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly."
"Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps."
