Top 40 Fish Pond Quotes
#1. and there was a fish pond a large one full of the fattest goldfish you ever saw and they were tame. they came to the surface of the water and took pieces of bread from our hands.
Charles Bukowski
#2. God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#3. Noon was approaching and the shadows under the sycamores were thin and short. The surface of the blue-tiled fish-pond was glassily still and water splashed monotonously into the fountain's basins. Khaemwaset held his fingers under the glittering flow and found it silky and warm.
Pauline Gedge
#4. We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.
Shane Claiborne
#5. I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.
Johnny Cash
#6. Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die.
Behdad Sami
#7. Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?
Lisi Harrison
#10. Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
Alexander Herzen
#11. I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool
Mindy Kaling
#12. Fish in another man's pond and you will catch crabs.
Habeeb Akande
#14. I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.
Anthony Michael Hall
#15. I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.
Edith Sitwell
#16. He would have chucked her back into the pond otherwise. Bad fish, he didn't do them young. He was a fucking deviant, not a monster.
V. Theia
#17. I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
Nick Lowe
#18. My teen-beat afternoon clarified everything for me. I had to get back to where I was who I was, a son of New Jersey, gunslinger, bar band king, small-town local hero, big fish in a little pond and breadwinner. Right
Bruce Springsteen
#19. There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.
Henry Fielding
#20. Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?
Rupert Brooke
#21. As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.
Craig Brown
#22. It's Easy To Feel Like A Big Fish, When Your Pond is Just A Puddle!
Latif Mercado
#23. I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond.
Leonard Lauder
#24. 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
#26. 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
#27. The Korean word for tree rose in his mind, surprising him, like a fish breaking the surface of a calm pond.
Sun Yung Shin
#28. It is like trying to describe the ocean to a fish in a pond. It has no concept of what it is.
Brett Jones
#29. 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
#30. 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
#32. In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.
Victoria Beckham
#33. 119. Let your hook be always cast in the pond. when you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid
#34. I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?
Sarah Monette
#35. And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.
Ihara Saikaku
#36. There are indeed ducks in Blackford Pond." "On it," muttered Isabel. "What?" "On the pond. There are ducks on the pond. There are fish in it." Even as she spoke, Isabel had no idea why she was being so pedantic, and
Alexander McCall Smith
#37. He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a fish in a pond. It's drying up. You have to mutate into an amphibian, but someone keeps hanging on to you and telling you to stay in the pond, everything's going to be all right.
Jack Kerouac
#38. You might be a big fish in a little pond,
Doesn't mean you've won
'Coz along may come a bigger one.
Coldplay
#39. Murder was apparently too common-place in the big city to attract much notice.
Poor Luther, thought Lucy, as she headed back to the hotel. Even in death he was only a big fish in a small pond.
Leslie Meier
#40. Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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