Swimmer quotes
26 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be."
"There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown."
"To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger."
"All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word."
"It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day."
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"My boyfriend is not a swimmer!"
"Good swimmers at length are drowned."