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Quotes About Wading

Henry, in coat and tie, waded out to where Francis stood, his trousers rolled to the knee, and old-fashioned banker in a surrealist painting.
~ Donna Tartt
Mistake:the unshoveled snow was knee-deep.I kept right on wading through it. "This is because I'm a good person," I assured Doofus. "I am going to heaven,though hopefully not by way of the convent.
~ Jennifer Echols
P—Jamie!" I called. He waded back toward me. "I'm starting to think my name is Pajamie." "Your name should be Pajerky. You said it wasn't deep." "Pajerky?" He gave me a skeptical look. "That's Pathetic." "We'll see how smug you are once I'm on dry land.
~ Diana Peterfreund
So slip on your goggles and your reading trunks, for the sun is high. Let me leave you with one more thought. In what season of the year do we find ourselves - I'm speaking for a moment in terms of the physical world - wading through things? Surf. Kelp. Books. Summer.
~ Roy Blount Jr.
Most autumns, the water is low from the long dry summer, and you have to get out from time to time and wade, leading or dragging your boat through trickling shallows from one pool to the long channel-twisted pool below, hanging up occasionally on shuddering bars of quicksand, making six or eight miles in a day's lazy work, but if you go to the river at all, you tend not to mind. You are not in a hurry there; you learned long since not to be.
~ John Graves
Wading into a sell-out 3,500 crowd to separate hooligans throwing punches is not what I expected as director of football at a phoenix club.
~ Robbie Savage
Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning.
~ Jojo Moyes
Only grown-ups would say boots were for keeping feet dry. Anyone in kindergarten knew that a girl should wear shiny red or white boots on the first rainy day, not to keep her feet dry, but to show off. That's what boots were for – showing off, wading, splashing, stamping.
~ Beverly Cleary
And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.
~ Terry Pratchett