Gertrude Ederle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 #Crazy #Ocean
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 #Swim #Said
When we're in the water, we're not in this world.
-- Gertrude Ederle

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

#Done
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 #Moon #Long
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 #Giving #Depth

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.
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.
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.

Gertrude Ederle famous quotes

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