“To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long ...” — Gertrude Ederle Quote

“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.”

“I am not a person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars.”

“I was happiest between the waves.”

“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.”

“Oh, I eat whatever I want whenever I want it.”

“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.”

“Changes is the mother of time.”

“The longer you live, the harder it becomes. To grab them. Each little moment as it arrives. To be living in something other than the past or the future. To be actually here.”

“That's what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events.”

“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes: so with time present.”

“A time will come when you will shine just like the bright stars in the sky. For now, work harder and build on your dreams one by one.”

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.”