Paddle Quotes

Unwearied still, lover by lover, They paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air Their hearts have not grown old. (William Butler Yeats)
Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks. View quote
Aldo Leopold
If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle. View quote
William H. McRaven
Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can. View quote
Abigail Spencer
I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad. View quote
Behati Prinsloo
August is laughing across the sky laughing, while paddle, canoe and I Drift, drift Where hills uplift either side of the current.. swift. View quote
Pauline Johnson
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle. View quote
Dr. Seuss
The sum of evolutionary evidence is thoroughly damning. In nearly every modification of the evolutionary process made in the duckbills as they developed from their dryosaur ancestors, the duckbills suffered a diminution of their swimming potential. Their fore- and hind paws became shorter and more compact, not longer and more widely spread. Their tails got weaker and stiffer. Far from being the best, the duckbills must have been the clumsiest and slowest swimmers in all the Dinosauria. If pressed, they probably could paddle slowly from one riverbanck to another. The central theme of their bodily evolution was indeed specialized - orthodox theory was right on that point - but the direction of specialization was landward. These dinosaurs were specialized for a totally terrestrial existence. View quote
Robert T. Bakker
For nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Darius was clearly of the opinion That the air is also man's dominion, And that, with paddle or fin or pinion, We soon or late Shall navigate The azure, as now we sail the sea. View quote
John Townsend Trowbridge
I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence. (Vanessa Hudgens)
William untucked the covers and stood, making a mental list of everything he'd need for the coming trip. A few blades, serrated and non serrated. A vial of acid. A bone saw. A spiked paddle. A cat-o'-nine-tails. And a bag of Gummy Bears. View quote
Gena Showalter
Most people don't want to be saved. Besides, if you keep bailing everybody out, they'll never learn to paddle on their own. View quote
Lauren Oliver
Be a duck, remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath. View quote
Michael Caine
We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak. View quote
George Downing
Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot. View quote
Matthew Lillard
Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide. View quote
Simon Mainwaring
The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets. View quote
Qurratulain Hyder
You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. View quote
Kris Kristofferson
. . . as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell. (Dan Brown)
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle. View quote
James Prescott Joule
And therein lies the reason why motor industry people don't fawn on journalists. They're in the hot seat, deciding who gets to drive what and who gets to go where. Why should they grovel when they know that without their assistance the motoring journalist is up the creek without a boat, nevermind a paddle? View quote
Jeremy Clarkson
I can't swim so I dog paddle (repeated line). View quote
Modest Mouse