Bart Millard Quotes

If the ship is sinking, you need help getting off that ship.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.

At the Superdome, a young man came up to me holding a baby. He'd run out of diapers. He'd run out of medicine. His baby was sick. The guy's saying, 'Help me! Take my baby.' What could I do? That's the definition of helpless.

I once saved someone from drowning.

I think places that need the rubber duck the most are the ones in distress.

A lifeline to sinking men.

No one will be harmed. You have nothing to fear. You will all be evacuated.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

Here is the boy, drowning.

I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.

If not for the horses, Piper would've died.

If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

Hold the fort! I am coming!

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

Let's face it: Some of us need our burly men to come rescue us.

I rescue people.

When tragedy strikes, feeling helpless is understandable.

If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.

Okay, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry.

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.

I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do. I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.

It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.

You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.