Swamps Quotes

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

Stride with a proud disdain through the swamp of human inadmissibility.

Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.

Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp.

Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.

Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.

Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building erected on piles. The piles are driven down from above into the swamp, but not down to any natural or 'given' base; and if we stop driving the piles deeper, it is not because we have reached firm ground. We simply stop when we are satisfied that the piles are firm enough to carry the structure, at least for the time being.

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.

Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing emissions. It's sort of like the goose that keeps on giving.

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.

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

A swamp is where Gators live. We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous. Only Gators get out alive.

The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.

With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it.

Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.

I just started calling myself 'Swamp A-.' Like, I have swamp a- right now. I had major swamp a- because I was wearing these Spanx to hold in my gut ... It's like the bayou up in that region.

I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing.

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.

I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.

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.

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.