Top 100 Pond Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?
Lisi Harrison
#3. The Ides of March. A sky-lidded night plain. A star-loaded sky. A moon without a pond to primp in. A wind without a leaf to tease. A nighthawk without a wire to rest on. A couple without a corner to turn. Her sandals, his wheels, made a popcorn-eating sound in the sand.
Tom Robbins
#4. It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.
Dorothy Hamill
#5. To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.
Jane Jacobs
#6. Cousin Jimmy says that a man in Priest Pond says the end of the world is coming soon. I hope it won't come till I've seen everything in it.
L.M. Montgomery
#8. The motor-car went Poop-poop-poop, As it raced along the road. Who was it steered it into a pond? Ingenious Mr. Toad!
Kenneth Grahame
#9. Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over ...
Sarah Dessen
#10. My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy.
Burt Shavitz
#11. This week, many will be reminded that no explosion of atoms generates so hopeful a light as the reflection of a star, seen appreciatively in a pasture pond.
E.B. White
#12. Remain in the world, act in the world, do whatsoever is needful, and yet remain transcendental, aloof, detached, a lotus flower in the pond.
Osho
#13. This fool he promised me is like to be my own reflection in a pond.
George R R Martin
#14. The sun was setting over Rainbow Valley. The pond was wearing a wonderful tissue of purple and gold and green and crimson. A faint blue haze rested on the eastern hill, over which a great, pale, round moon was just floating up like a silver bubble. They
L.M. Montgomery
#15. The choices humans make are like a ripple in a pond. They carry from one to another, bouncing, dancing. Colliding. And still they go on. But you. The choices you make are like a tsunami in the ocean.
T.J. Klune
#16. For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman; ... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.
Henry David Thoreau
#17. Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.
Rose Macaulay
#18. After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
Arthur Golden
#20. 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
#21. Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
Gottfried Leibniz
#22. I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray?
Henry David Thoreau
#23. It snows. So I don't even have to go to the pond for fresh water - just reach out the door for a handful of snow. Melt it, and it's sweet as the sky.
Jerome Lawrence
#24. As well to clutch at the moon's reflection in a still midnight pond as to seek a grip on that bright mind.
Robin Hobb
#25. Cal had been waiting for us at the pond. When he'd seen me, he'd given me a barely perceptible nod, which was the Cal version of waving his hands over his head and yelling, Hey, Sophie!
Rachel Hawkins
#26. You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance
Rumi
#27. Cowards drown in a pond. The extraordinary flourish in the middle of the ocean.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#28. But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.
Jodi Picoult
#29. I'd spent the past six months trying not to think about all that had happened last fall. To have it all read out to me in Dad's emotionless voice ... well,let's just say I was beginning to wish I'd stayed in the pond.
Rachel Hawkins
#30. Amy Pond is, er ... I've sort of fallen in love with Amy Pond.
Matt Smith
#31. When I was really young I used to collect frog spawn. I made a pond out of an old sink and I loved to spend hours watching the frogs grow.
Beth Orton
#32. There's an old saying in the Two Rivers" Rand said dryly. "'The louder a man tells you he's honest, the harder you must hold on to your purse.'" Another said, "The fox often offers to give the duck its pond.
Robert Jordan
#33. My pond life with hydra is over; now I'm into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper..
Munia Khan
#34. In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one.
Yosa Buson
#35. The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.
Anna Sewell
#36. In the next shot the cameras zoomed to the fiancee who noticed the lights in the Czarina's room go out and the camera then turned to the pond where two goldfish were making love.
Pola Negri
#37. Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader's soul.
The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#38. A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. Enki kisses my ear. He turns my head until I taste just the corner of his mouth. I am crystal clear, I am a pond, I am a light. I am nothing at all.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
#40. The way you live your life matters! Think about when you toss a stone into a pond and it sends ripples across the water - in a similar manner your life "ripples out" and has influence on those around you.
Victoria Osteen
#41. In the mind of the Indian public, journalists currently occupy a position of respect somewhere between pond scum and Ebola virus.
Sidin Vadukut
#42. Country life has its advantages,' he used to say. 'You sit on the veranda drinking tea and your ducklings swim on the pond, and everything smells good ... and there are gooseberries.
Anton Chekhov
#44. 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
#45. So back over the sledding hill, across the iced-up pond, past the snowman with the funny hat, under the giant shimmering icicles and up the snowy back lane back to you; yes YOU,are you missing out on anything right NOW while thinking about tomorrow?
Sarah Lawrence
#46. To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content.
Donald Hall
#47. 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
#48. The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
Bradley Chicho
#49. The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguessed at by the person who threw the stone ...
Robertson Davies
#50. It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
Henry David Thoreau
#51. Mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived
Henry David Thoreau
#52. Looking into the spirit of others is sometimes like looking into a pond. Though we aim to see what's deep in the bottom, we are often distracted by our own reflection.
Katina Ferguson
#53. Fish in another man's pond and you will catch crabs.
Habeeb Akande
#54. I want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.
Tim Cook
#55. And yet there were times when I felt my life full of such richness, such fullness, I couldn't express it, couldn't speak or breathe a word because I feared the disruption
even a single breath could ruin it, like wind over a pond. I didn't want even a ripple.
Lauren Oliver
#56. Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.
Amy Tan
#57. When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
Ralph Marston
#58. Did he not know that there was a lower point, yet, when you had accepted your own fate but found yourself too weak to go through with it? The point at which you understood you had made not a single ripple in the pond, and neither would your loss.
Lori Rader-Day
#59. Every word an author writes causes ripples, like tossing a stone into a pond. And you don't know where they'll go, or who they'll touch, or when they might come back to you. I think everything you do is kind of like that, too.
Ellen Hopkins
#60. A tuna can only boast in a pond, but a whale can boast even in the ocean.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#61. Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.
Clive James
#62. He eyed in the far corner of the room the carton of books they'd schlepped across the pond(ocean) They were both fearful of being stuck without a decent book, and who knew they would find everything from Virgil to Synge on the shelves of a fishing lodge?
Jan Karon
#63. When you stand on the banks
of Penn Swamp Pond in August,
those injuries can save your life
and keep you picking till the bush is bare.
Charles Rafferty
#64. God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#66. If you throw a stone in a pond ... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course ... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#67. 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
#68. The Boys and the Frogs SOME BOYS, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.
Aesop
#69. Like a stone falling in a pond, circles and circles of love ripple through me.
Jenny Downham
#70. Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.
Sharon Jones
#71. Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.
Katherine Applegate
#72. 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
#73. I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade about an unrequited crush.
Greta Salpeter
#74. Without him in my life I'm a frozen pond reflecting the daylight but never absorbing its heat.
Petra F. Bagnardi
#75. To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond ... You - what have you done?
Josemaria Escriva
#76. They're having a clam-bake. They're baking my clams.
They're baking the clams pried from my steaming pond.
Mark Levine
#77. Which story do you want to hear my child?"he picked him up and made him sit on his lap.
"Tell us the story of that fairy who lived in a house of wafers,had a garden of chocolate trees and a pond full of goldfishes,"the child wrapped his arms around his shoulder.
Chitralekha Paul
#78. 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
#79. To the inhabitants of the pond, the pond was the world; and to the inhabitants of the world, the world was but a muddy pond.
Ruskin Bond
#80. Like a stone dropped into a pond, an article of that sort may spread out its concentric circles of consequences.
Walt Whitman
#81. He was like water - cold, deep, unpredictable, and, like the pond up the canyon, dangerous, because you could never see what was beneath the surface. And just like I'd done all my life, I jumped in head first, even though I'd been forbidden. But this time, I drowned.
Amy Harmon
#82. Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.
Sarah Dessen
#83. Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.
Michelle Malkin
#84. Every morning I walk like this around
the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.
Mary Oliver
#85. A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow
#86. Was young I lived upon my mother's milk, as I could not eat grass. In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was hot we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees,
Anna Sewell
#87. I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
Nick Lowe
#88. My purpose in going to Walden Pond
was not to live cheaply
nor to live dearly there
but to transact some private business,
with the fewest obstacles ...
It's a good place for business ...
it offers advantages
which it may not be good policy to divulge.
Henry David Thoreau
#89. In the same way a pebble dropped on a quiet pond sends ripples far out from itself,
Leigh Brill
#90. The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.
Matsuo Basho
#91. What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that.
Dorothy Day
#92. Glamour might still have clung to a rakehell who abducted noble damsels, but no glamour remained about a man who had been pushed into a pond in full ball-dress.
Georgette Heyer
#93. She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined thing.
Janet Fitch
#94. Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.
Lemony Snicket
#95. Great robber though he was, Kandata could only trash about like a dying frog as he choked on the blood of the pond.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#96. Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.
Sherwood Smith
#97. still standing in the waist-deep pond I was relieved to see he was safe. I felt that the previous night he had started something with the blue-eyed creature
MineCrafTales
#98. If one is to drown, one may as well do it in the largest possible pond.
Cathryn Louis
#99. If he had the earth for his pasture and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper still. He only is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
Mentioned in
Sixty Days and Counting, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#100. I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.
Emanuel Cleaver
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