Ederle Quotes & Sayings

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it. — Brian Mulroney

When I go onstage, I kind of turn into a beast sometimes, this alter-ego, you know. — Nicole Scherzinger

Nothing touches the soul but leaves its impress, and thus, little by little, we are fashioned into the image of all we have seen and heard, known and meditated; and if we learn to live with all that is fairest and purest and best , the love of it all will in the end become our life. — David B. Haight

Of course one can't eat in a civilized fashion while touring in theatres. But I still manage to get my three meals a day. I find that is sufficient for training. — Gertrude Ederle

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

People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could. — Gertrude Ederle

I am at the Continental Divide with the astral beings. They're most beautiful. They're most luminous. They have many shapes and sometimes their shape changes constantly, All kinds of colors. — Frederick Lenz

How much shall I be changed, before I am changed! — John Randolph Donnell

When somebody tells me I cannot do something, that's when I do it, — Gertrude Ederle

The doctors told me my hearing would get worse if I continued swimming, but I loved the water so much, I just couldn't stop. — Gertrude Ederle

God has been good to me. — Gertrude Ederle

In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo. — Donna De Varona

You want to be treated like an adult? Then you need to grow up. — Kristan Higgins

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority. — John Fletcher

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

Charity never faileth. — Swami Vivekananda

I just knew if it could be done, it had to be done, and I did it — Gertrude Ederle

I am not a person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars. — Gertrude Ederle

When Gertrude Ederle struck out from France she left behind her a world which has believed for a great many centuries that woman is the weaker vessel. Much of government, most of law and practically all of morality is based upon this assumption. And when her toes touched the sands of England, she stepped out of the water into a brand-new world. It may be that she will turn out to be an even greater discoverer than Columbus. It was only a continent which he found. — Gavin Mortimer

I was happiest between the waves. — Gertrude Ederle

Billy Ederle's leaning in the doorway, drinking a Nozzy. — Stephen King

The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of the most important ways that we make sense of our past and present and understand our hopes for the future. — Peg O'Connor

Don't weep for me; don't write any sob stories. — Gertrude Ederle

When we're in the water, we're not in this world. — Gertrude Ederle

Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these pages. You'll meet them all: The Babe, The Four Horsemen, The Manassa Manassas Mauler, The Wheaton Iceman, Bill Tilden, Gertrude Ederle, and Grantland Rice, the sportswriter whose purple prose made them all come alive. — Peter Golenbock

Oh, I eat whatever I want whenever I want it. — Gertrude Ederle