Swamp Quotes: top 77 famous quotes about Swamp

Swamp Quotes & Sayings

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O, you the goldfish of
the swamp of my blood.
Let your drunkenness be pretty.
You are drinking me. — Forough Farrokhzad

Most successful politicians don't let the job swamp their lives. — George Osborne

If we have a relationship with Jesus Christ and believe the Bible to be the Word of God, then we have no room for wallowing in the swamp of self-pity. — Lois Mowday Rabey

He and I had always felt as if we were fellow survivors from some vanishing age or land, in the gibbering swamp of mediocrity around us. — Ayn Rand

Persimmius. He is your man. You can find him in the old temple district, close to Shat Swamp. — Scott Marlowe

Both of my grandfathers had voices like bullfrogs battling in a swamp pond. — Robert McCammon

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

But the outsider in May, the one from Briery Swamp who had never fit quite right, kept her tucked safely in her nook. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

Electric, wild, one foot in the swamp. Never going to crawl all the way out. And I wanted to have sex with whatever he was.
(Mac about Barrons) — Karen Marie Moning

I'm alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows. — Steven Herrick

In any arrangement that hinges upon the fulcrum of trust there exists the leverage potential for crime. — Sean Terrence Best

But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in. — George W. Bush

Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it. — Charles M. Blow

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. — Berthold Auerbach

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. — D.H. Lawrence

From Return of Swamp Thing
It's the old impasse:
I don't know what to wait for. — Kathleen Norris

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp. — Ronald Reagan

My room is a grave yard of whisky bottles in a swamp of stale beer, cigar ashes, and dick jokes. — Vincent Brooks

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living. — Yitzhak Rabin

Did I say stab of Self Pity? No, I was trekking through the Swamp of Self Pity at this point, waist deep in my own stinking shit. — Nicole Hamlett

'9/11' came out of a swamp of hatred created by us. — George Galloway

I wanted to climb out of the swamp and run away somewhere. Somewhere where nobody knows me. Somewhere where I could start all over from the beginning. — Kanae Minato

When you stand on the banks
of Penn Swamp Pond in August,
those injuries can save your life
and keep you picking till the bush is bare. — Charles Rafferty

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp. — Bob Dylan

The soy is seeping through the material like a BP oil slick in a Louisiana swamp. — Poppet

In the swamp the alligators drifted like patches of bad-assed water. — Terry Pratchett

There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death — Bret Harte

Lo siento about the u-rine, mi amigo, but better safe than sorry when in the swamp. That's my motto.-Mark — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The post-traumatic shock from living in Florida never goes away, yet part of me is forever attached to that eccentric, heat-infested swamp. — Jennifer Harrison

Norman stirred, turned, and then fell into a darkness deeper and more engulfing than the swamp. — Robert Bloch

She was an elf
She turned the lake to swamp
A dark and warm marsh
Her body sunk down
There unshaken lay — J.M.K. Walkow

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire. — Joy Kogawa

At least that would be a new disgusting swamp experience, instead of a disgusting swamp experience I'd already had several times that day. — Seanan McGuire

I'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in. — Marilyn Hacker

With any luck at all," he said, "we should soon be safely in the Fire Swamp. — William Goldman

Aren't you that hick girl who lives out in the swamp? Do you even know what a computer is?
-Scott Waldron — Julie Kagawa

Armed with my sword and wand, I was all set for a stroll through the swamp to look for a hungry monster. Oh, joy! — Rick Riordan

Please, never tell me what 'horror erotica' is. Real #art is being lost in a bizarre swamp of over-processed, sexually exploitative garbage. — Carla H. Krueger

When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp. — Jerry Reed

I turned into a swamp of inactivity, and because of this no one was able to see the gems in my depths. — Osama Alomar

Youever insult Bride again, I swear I'll rip your throat out and feed you to the
gators in the swamp. You understand me? - Vane — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I thought I recognized you.
Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering. — Josh Lanyon

1970 - A YEAR with a whole new sound to it - came along, and that put an end to my teen years. Now I could step ahead into a whole new swamp. — Haruki Murakami

In the beginning there were the swamp, the hoe - and Jussi. — Vaino Linna

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

May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late. — George Washington

How many minutes will still die in the swamp of your illusion of being human? — Sorin Cerin

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp. — Roy Blount Jr.

Careful what you choose for your purpose in life; revenge is a swamp you'll get lost in. — Dannika Dark

Every swamp has a silted lining. — Brian Spellman

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp. — Carson McCullers

The villagers marked the time in two ways: before the swamp and after. What came before was good. And all that came after was not. — Melanie Crowder

Why did you live so long in the swamp that you yourself had to become a frog and a toad? — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Uh-oh,' Lafitte said ominously. 'Swamp queen just go angry. — Jennifer Donnelly

Just in front of her lay the Congaree Swamp National Forest. To prove it, a mosquito the size of a kitten landed on her arm and prepared to drill. — Sela Carsen

England's a nice place if you're rich, but otherwise it's a fucking swamp of prejudice, class confusion, the whole thing. — Hanif Kureishi

You're all incredibly thoughtful souls who keep my head attached to my body. — Jenny Sampirisi

I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday. — Peter Steele

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly. — Henry David Thoreau

'Animal Man' and 'Swamp Thing' have so many commonalities in tone and mood. — Jeff Lemire

Balance was so elusive: either it was like this, too fast, or there was the heavy thing like wading through a swamp to get to the end of a sentence. — Edward St. Aubyn

From New York they traveled on to Washington, a swamp village by comparison. In — T. J. Stiles

Once you go bacterial, you never go back.... — Edgar Swamp

I was a demon. I could find a romantic opportunity in an insect-infested swamp. — Debra Dunbar

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp. — Claire Cameron

Some nasty old fart and his weird wife died, but the airboat swamp tour was awesome." She — Ellen Byron

When you're up to your ass in alligators, you forget about cleaning the swamp. — Robert DeBard

No owl is afraid of the night, no snake of the swamp and no traitor of the treason! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The world's oldest and deepest body of freshwater, Lake Baikal, is turning into a swamp, Russian ecologists warn. — Anonymous

Depression lives and grows in the swamp of need. — Bryant McGill

In Calumet a thousand ornate streetlamps stood in a swamp, where they did nothing but ignite the fog and summon auras of mosquitoes. — Erik Larson

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

I like the ocean," [...] "It feels like forever and I can breathe. When I'm near the ocean, I'm free of the swamp in a way no other place allows. — Bijou Hunter

If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp. — Richard Bach

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

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