Water Safety Quotes

Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.

Knowing how to swim doesn't come from someone else showing you or someone else telling you or watching movies of other people swimming. It comes from having been in the water, knowing how to move yourself through the water and not sink. And it's true of virtually everything in our lives: knowing comes from direct experience.

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human system.

There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

Without the EPA and the national pollution safeguards it enforces, more children would have asthma. Our water would be less safe. More chemicals would poison our bodies. And more people would die prematurely from respiratory diseases and heart attacks.

You Know the Most Dangerous Thing In the Water? A Shark Fart.

Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!

I think the biggest things I am looking forward to is getting new faces into the sport. Getting kids who could be afraid of water to feel comfortable in the pool.

You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

There's no excuse in 2019, with the wealth we have as a nation, with the technology we have as a country, that we cannot clean this water, ensure that all communities have clean drinking water.

Companies using public lands should be required to perform thorough testing on all wells in order to fully ensure water safety.

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

Take off your wedding ring prior to swimming!

Contaminated water is not a problem limited to Flint. Think of New Jersey, where school fountains were found to contain unsafe levels of lead. Or the EPA's 33,000 superfund sites, which are highly-polluted areas that require long-term clean-up operations. The problem is so large that it feels insurmountable.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

There's nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.

Interesting fact: a shark will only attack you if you’re wet.

By the time of the Civil War, there were many kinds of apples growing across the United States, but most of them didn't taste very good, and as a rule, people didn't eat them. Cider was cheaper to make than beer, and many settlers believed fermented drinks were safer than water. Everyone drank hard cider.

I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.

I have generally and will always fight for clean air and safe drinking water laws.

When you drink fluoridated water, you're drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it's a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs you down; it makes you docile.

I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.