Gertrude Ederle quotes

Gertrude Ederle quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.”
-- Gertrude Ederle

#Children Quotes #Crazy Quotes #Ocean Quotes
“When somebody tells me I cannot do something, that's when I do it,”
-- Gertrude Ederle
“People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could.”
-- Gertrude Ederle

#People Quotes #Swim Quotes #Said Quotes
“When we're in the water, we're not in this world.”
-- Gertrude Ederle

#Water Quotes #World Quotes #This World Quotes
“I just knew if it could be done, it had to be done, and I did it”
-- Gertrude Ederle

#Done Quotes
“I have no complaints. I am comfortable and satisfied. I am not the kind of person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars.”
-- Gertrude Ederle

#Stars Quotes #Moon Quotes #Long Quotes
“Slowly I came to know that the depth of our heartbreaks determines the depth of our faith. God gives us everything to conquer the big and the little hurts of life.”
-- Gertrude Ederle

#Hurt Quotes #Giving Quotes #Depth Quotes

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
“We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.”
“Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.”
“Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.”

Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books
“I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who's not so crazy and peculiar and demanding.”
“Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.”
“Hanukkah is...the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights”
“I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.195, Thomas Nelson Inc
“There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it .... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.”
“Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.”

Source : "Beautiful Wave Star Aimee Teegarden Talks Surfer Boys And More!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. May 12, 2012.

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