Top 100 A Pond Quotes
#1. If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters.
Prashant Iyengar
#2. a willow tree was weeping from the heavy rain, a coy pond nearly overflowing.
Marissa Meyer
#3. When influential people speak, conversations spread like ripples in a pond. And those ripples are multidirectional; influencers inspire everyone around them to explore new ideas and think differently about their work.
Travis Bradberry
#4. If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.
H. P. Blavatsky
#5. Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
Thomas Love Peacock
#6. The lesson of the Impressionists is that there are times and places where it is better to be a Big Fish in a Little Pond than a Little Fish in a Big Pond, where the apparent disadvantage of being an outsider in a marginal world turns out not to be a disadvantage at all.
Malcolm Gladwell
#7. He wanted me to come home
to come home, as he said, and settle down, and whenever he said that I thought of the sediment at the bottom of a stagnant pond.
James Baldwin
#8. The water in the pond inside my heart doesn't shine anymore. It has turned dark. Every ghost from my mind breaks all the barriers and take a dip there, making it darker. and every time it happens, my soul in the pond cries with pain.
Akshay Vasu
#9. In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits ...
Martin Luther
#10. Directly beneath the Lotus Pond of Paradise lay the lower depths of Hell, and as He peered through the crystalline waters, He could see the River of Three Crossings and the Mountain of Needles as clearly as if He were viewing pictures in a peep-box.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#11. I think the art world ... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.
Thomas Kinkade
#12. Girls were supposed to be happy that someone wanted them, as though they were kittens in a basket, and any left by day's end would be drowned in the pond.
Stephanie Perkins
#13. Can't you see? It's incredibly interesting. Aren't you struck by how much action occurred simply because something went wrong with one man's brain? It's as if the rational world, your world, was a still pond and Petter's brain was a jagged rock thrown into it, creating odd ripples everywhere." The
Jon Ronson
#14. Godless as I am, I pray she's got away with it. It's like ripples in a pond, isn't it? It doesn't stop in one place.
Elizabeth Wein
#15. It's been much harder to forgive myself. My mistake was like a pebble dropped in a pond. The ripple effect has impacted everyone I love.
Heather Blanton
#16. When you make a decision and a commitment to do something good for yourself, it is like dropping a pebble in a pond. It has a rippling effect. The firmer the decision, the stronger the frequency and wider the range of things that will be reached.
Iyanla Vanzant
#17. I would rather be a shark in a small pond with small fishis then a shark with bigger sharks then you
Beto Jimenez
#18. Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.
Steven Wright
#19. Jo's whimper rose slightly but the scream she yearned for wouldn't materialise. Instead, as she looked at her hand, she began to make a gurgling, gagging noise, more animal than human.
Martin Pond
#20. To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."
Rumi
#22. The lessons are in the quest. The answers are found in the journey. These are ripples on a pond. They spread outward. And on we walk ...
Thomas Norman DeWolf
#23. Marty used to tell her she had the world's worst poker face: her feelings floated across her features like reflections on a still pond.
Jojo Moyes
#24. The seeds of the life of fishes are everywhere disseminated, whether the winds waft them, or the waters float them, or the deep earth holds them; wherever a pond is dug, straightway it is stocked with this vivacious race. They have a lease of nature, and it is not yet out.
Henry David Thoreau
#25. Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.
Gene Hackman
#26. The ultimate source of energy, the sun is ready to set. The leaves of the blooming lotus flower in the pond are losing their lustre. A bumblebee, sitting on that lotus is enjoying the romantic pleasure and murmuring passionate songs.
Manmohan Acharya
#28. Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fenced, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back.
John Steinbeck
#30. The man who runs from his office to the golf club, gulps a sandwich, belches and races to the first tee has no business howling in anguish when he puts his first two shots in the woods, then tops a 3-iron shot into the pond.
Tony Lema
#31. Living is like being chained at the bottom of a shallow pond with my eyes open and no air
Katie McGarry
#32. It had all dropped into place, like the last bit of the jigsaw, which you thought all along was a bit of left-hand sky, but when you turn it over you realise it's the last chunk of right-hand sea, or the sky tricksily reflected in the surface of the pond.
Tom Holt
#33. We're going to Connecticut.' A deep inhale. 'Via a pond dome.' I blinked bit by bit. 'Through the Sound.' I rolled my shoulders. 'I think I should have paid better attention when Mom took me to Sunday school classes.
Scarlett Dawn
#34. Like a lotus plunging to the surface of a pond to embrace the light from its muddy darkness, truth always rises with time.
Suzy Kassem
#35. Who have not led the holy life
nor riches won while young,
they linger on as aged cranes
around a fished-out pond.
Gautama Buddha
#36. Lake Powell: storage pond, silt trap, evaporation tank and garbage dispose-all, a 180-mile-long incipient sewage lagoon.
Edward Abbey
#37. The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes.
Barbara Kingsolver
#38. You're not to go wading in my pond again," he said. She shrugged and picked up her shoes and stockings where they lay on the path. "Very well, Your Grace, but it's a great pity. I should've liked to go swimming.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#39. Like the ripples from a stone tossed into the pond from the water's edge, the effects of our choices extend infinitely outward. Even the smallest of acts reverberates in the ears of unwritten histories.
Justin Young
#40. Suddenly all is quiet. The other nine players? They're all moving in slow motion! I'm at normal speed! I know where everyone's going even before they know themselves. The basket is huge, maybe six feet across! How can I miss? It's like throwing a rock into a pond.
Michael Jordan
#41. Amy Pond: 'I thought ... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.'
The Doctor: 'Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it. [He Smiles] I am definitely a madman with a box.
Steven Moffat
#42. [On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.
Rebecca West
#43. We can't be afraid to change. You may fell secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know there is a such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, maybe the very reason you don't have something better.
C. JoyBell C.
#44. I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many more were swimming around your toes, but also rather wonderful.
Mark Haddon
#45. As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of remaining in the shadows is creating a nice little climate of panic.
J.K. Rowling
#46. I understand that you're a big fish in a small pond, but I'll explain that if you want to swim in the ocean, you must understand that the ocean is populated by sharks, and sharks never sleep.
Kristen Ashley
#47. I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
Patrick Dempsey
#48. A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are quite other; everything has swung and shattered, it is all beyond recovery
Penelope Lively
#49. When you gaze out on a quiet, peaceful meadow, next to a still pond, under a motionless blue sky, you wonder how the noisy, busy cacophony of life could have arisen from such silent, motionless beginning.
M..
#50. The Korean word for tree rose in his mind, surprising him, like a fish breaking the surface of a calm pond.
Sun Yung Shin
#51. American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Henry Adams
#52. I mistook stars reflected in a pond at night for those in the sky.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#53. Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.
Ramakrishna
#54. It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin
Donnie McClurkin
#55. Planning your own coming-of-age experience may wither you prematurely, but just think of it this way: If you can get through this, childbirth should be a breeze.
Mimi Pond
#56. If you want to know how important you are to the world, stick your finger in a pond and pull it out. Will the hole remain? When
Maya Angelou
#57. All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words.
Roy Peter Clark
#58. Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.
Siobhan Dowd
#59. It is like trying to describe the ocean to a fish in a pond. It has no concept of what it is.
Brett Jones
#60. It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
Loudon Wainwright III
#61. From what I've read of detective stories, inspectors always do want to drag the pond first.
A.A. Milne
#62. Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.
William Allingham
#63. Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.
Matsuo Basho
#64. That's where the dreams end: with the realization that it doesn't matter where I am, whether I think I'm a woman or a fish or something in-between. I've never really left the pond. I still can't breathe.
Seanan McGuire
#65. A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.
Amy Tan
#66. And strangely enoughthe only emotion I ever feel, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden construction, which creates the tranquil pond and gives the mallards somewhere to paddle, and the pair of swans a place to conceal their young
Billy Collins
#67. You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.
Terry Pratchett
#68. It's not normal to go into a house and see a pond in the middle of the living room full of baby sharks. It's not normal to go to someone's garage and see a private plane.
Kevin Kwan
#69. my life is a pond filled with stones - tossed and rippled by children at play
Tshombe Sekou
#70. A pond full of information can sometimes be less useful than a cup full of insight
Gyan Nagpal
#71. As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.
Alexander Skarsgard
#72. To me she looked like a lily, an innocence floating in the pond!
Avijeet Das
#73. Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind.
George Eliot
#74. The running shoe ... could be called the Swiss Army knife of footwear ... What appeal is there to a shoe whose only selling point is comfort?
Mimi Pond
#75. She pictures love as a pond to be stepped into, swum around in, and then climbed out of and toweled off before getting too chilly.
Jessica Shattuck
#76. Drifting on the black, rippling surface were fingers. Thumbs. Dozens of them. Hundreds, floating like dead fish in a dynamited pond. I saw part of an ear. The lights went out.
Glen Hirshberg
#77. Listening to intuition is similar to watching wind wiggle a pond. Allow the ripples to move you where you need to be.
Soul Dancer
#78. And if you hear a frog jump into the pond with a flounce like a stone thrown in, be sure you run and tell me, because it is a sign of rain.
Thomas Hardy
#79. I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence.
Tracy Morgan
#81. I felt as conspicuous as a baby whale in a goldfish pond.
Stephen King
#82. Remember when you were eleven years old and you thought how great it would be to get your period? And then you got it? That's what planning a wedding is like.
Mimi Pond
#83. Us f'gotten slaves was bein' drained by hunger'n'pain an' the mozzies from the slopin' pond now an' we was envyin' that Hawi boy diresome, till at a nod from Lyons they ripped down Elfy's pants an' held him an' busted that boy's ring, oilin' his hole up with lardbird fat b'tween turns.
David Mitchell
#84. I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond.
Leonard Lauder
#85. Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
Nicolas Roeg
#86. We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond
Dalai Lama
#87. In the Big Pond chapter, I talked about the fact that being on the outside, in a less elite and less privileged environment, can give you more freedom to pursue your own ideas and academic interests.
Malcolm Gladwell
#88. In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
Vince Poscente
#89. He was ... wearing a tasselled velvet nightcap that I [Amy] noticed the Doctor eyeing up. If Boris didn't watch out, that'd go missing and we'd never hear the end of 'Nightcaps are cool.
James Goss
#90. I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.
Patton Oswalt
#91. I dream that one day I would be a published writer and people would read my books - if not, I would be living in the mountains in a small hut, near a pond where swans swim, writing a diary for myself.
Srinidhi.R
#92. I've also been chased by a swan over by the pond one time. That's why I don't go there anymore.
Cara Dee
#93. Sarusawa Pond is a very special place, because the Emperor paid it a formal visit when he heard how one of the Palace Maidens had drowned herself there. 1 Thinking of Hitomaro's marvellous words 'her hair tangled as in sleep', there is really nothing I can add.
Sei Shonagon
#94. But a man with a machine and inadequate culture - such as I was when I made my pond - is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
Wendell Berry
#95. The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.
Henry David Thoreau
#96. There are a sort of men, whose visages
Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond;
And do a willful stillness entertain,
With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit;
As who should say, I am sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
William Shakespeare
#97. Life was like the ice on an early-winter pond: more fragile than it appeared to be, riddled by hidden fractures, with a cold darkness below.
Dean Koontz
#98. But you want a placid pond, a glassy surface to reflect your own casual desires and nothing more. You will never fathom the depths of my savage ocean.
Sherri Gaillard
#99. When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don't respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.
Grimes
#100. I felt my own self-sufficiency, my own Walden Pond, seeping out of me as if I'd sprung a leak. Self soaked into everything around me - the floor, the walls, the one window, the grass. The words on the page.
Olivia Sudjic
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