Quotes on Paddling

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don't have to show that I am working very hard.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.