Ederle Gertrude Quotes & Sayings

Not everyone will have the heart you have. Not everyone will appreciate you and what you do for them. Sometimes it won't be easy having a kind heart in a cruel world. Be prepared. — Tony A. Gaskins Jr.

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

Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time? — R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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

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

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

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

After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write. — Vikram Seth

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

Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. — Alan Kay

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

A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not. — Eric Ripert

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