Top 216 Swamp Quotes & Sayings

President Trump is draining the D.C. swamp by fighting against corporate welfare.

Stride with a proud disdain through the swamp of human inadmissibility.

My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We go down there a lot. We got married in New Orleans. She has a cousin who introduced me to swamp pop, which is sort of zydeco/Cajun music with a little uptempo pop swing. Now I'm a big zydeco fan, I'm a big swamp-music fan.

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.

Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Trump assumed office promising to 'drain the swamp' in Washington, D.C. Instead, the swamp has grown wider and deeper.

'9/11' came out of a swamp of hatred created by us.

Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building erected on piles. The piles are driven down from above into the swamp, but not down to any natural or 'given' base; and if we stop driving the piles deeper, it is not because we have reached firm ground. We simply stop when we are satisfied that the piles are firm enough to carry the structure, at least for the time being.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

I want to help Donald Trump drain the swamp back in Washington.

Sometimes, if you have a lot of history with a character and a lot of affection, it's hard for you to do anything with that character. Like with Swamp Thing, for instance, I revere the Alan Moore run so much that it would be hard for me to do my own Swamp Thing. I care too much about the way it was done before.

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

By ending congressional taxpayer-funded pensions, we will take one more step toward draining the swamp in Washington.

I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.

It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

You can't drain the swamp, as President Trump has touted doing, without getting rid of Mitch McConnell.

Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.

Donald Trump is the swamp.

'Animal Man' and 'Swamp Thing' have so many commonalities in tone and mood.

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

If all I can say is I'm not in this swamp, I'm not in this swamp then there is not a rope in front of me and there is not an alligator behind me and there is not a girl sitting at the edge eating a hot dog and if I believe that, then dying would be the only answer because then Death couldn't come and say Peachy to me anymore and after all she has a brother who believes in hope.

A swamp is where Gators live. We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous. Only Gators get out alive.

The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him standing motionless for enormous periods of time he is often eaten in full display by The Great Bald Swamp Hedgehog Eater.

I've always wanted to make 'Swamp Thing.' I like 'Swamp Thing.' I think it's a good idea, and I thought it would be a good venue for a 3-D movie, but there were rights issues with 'Swamp Thing.'

We will drain the swamp in Washington, D.C., and replace it with a new government, of, and by, and for the people.

If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.

There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death

The cost of healthcare, caring for our veterans, and draining the swamp are among a few of the issues I have been tackling for Hoosiers in Washington.

Most successful politicians don't let the job swamp their lives.

Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.

I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday.

Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp.

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

I think that Twitter is a useful reporting tool sometimes, but an utterly toxic swamp that nonetheless I engage in more than I probably should.

i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.

The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.

Armed with my sword and wand, I was all set for a stroll through the swamp to look for a hungry monster. Oh, joy!

But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

Donald Trump ran for president on a promise to 'drain the swamp.' I agreed with that particular statement. Unfortunately, he didn't mean what he said.

No one understands the dysfunctions and debilitating impact of America's political system in the swamp better than Mark Melcher and Steve Soukup.

In its early days, Trump's presidency ought to be viewed as the arduous start to the complicated task of draining the Washington swamp.

Nancy Pelosi said that when it comes to cleaning up government, the Democrats have drained the swamp. The only problem with that is what's left after you drain the swamp: snakes everywhere.

As soon as people really get into the swamp - the scary swamp that is 'Fortitude' - there's no getting out of it. You need about six to seven episodes in to really go, 'This is what it's about.'

Donald Trump is my leader. And if he decides to drop the swamp and the alligator, I will drop the swamp and the alligator.

I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.

If I were a Democrat, I'd be a career politician, so I'd enrich the Swamp while further bankrupting America.

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

No owl is afraid of the night, no snake of the swamp and no traitor of the treason!

I'm committed to continuing President Trump's goal of draining the swamp.

My favorite Swamp Thing stories have always been about a man wrestling with monsters both internal and external.

I just started calling myself 'Swamp A-.' Like, I have swamp a- right now. I had major swamp a- because I was wearing these Spanx to hold in my gut ... It's like the bayou up in that region.

When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill. If the hills are wooded, that flow is checked. If there is a swamp at the foot of the hills, the swamp sponges up most of the excess water, restores some of it to the underground water supply and feeds the remainder slowly into the streams. Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

We will build a great wall. We are going to drain the swamp.

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.