Swimming Lessons Quotes

“Bad luck is what we conveniently call our bad choices.”
― Mary Alice Monroe, Swimming Lessons

“women need solitude in our lives to refill our well and garner strength to face life’s deeper questions.”
― Mary Alice Monroe, Swimming Lessons

“Einstein said the only source of knowledge is experience.”
― Mary Alice Monroe, Swimming Lessons

“I don’t think so. It gives us a better perspective of our place. We hold our history so dear, our politics so tight. But in the fullness of time, all histories fade. Rome, Ephesus, the Incan and Mayan cultures. The wheel of time turns round and round and proves change is part of nature. The problem comes in trying to interfere with nature or to think we know more than nature. Our failures are humbling. The more I learn, the more I see that, in the end, nature will prevail.”
― Mary Alice Monroe, Swimming Lessons

“To feel nature as a child is much more important than just being able to list names of birds, or plants or animals. That kind of heart isn’t something you can teach a child in books.”
― Mary Alice Monroe, Swimming Lessons

“was”
― Mary Alice Monroe, Swimming Lessons

“It gives us a better perspective of our place. We hold our history so dear, our politics so tight. But in the fullness of time, all histories fade. Rome, Ephesus, the Incan and Mayan cultures. The wheel of time turns round and round and proves change is part of nature. The problem comes in trying to interfere with nature or to think we know more than nature. Our failures are humbling. The more I learn, the more I see that, in the end, nature will prevail.”
― Mary Alice Monroe, Swimming Lessons

“and highlighted with bold streaks”
― Mary Alice Monroe, Swimming Lessons: A Novel