Top 72 Quotes About Ponds
#1. Rather than struggling to become bigger fish, we might concentrate our energies on finding smaller ponds or smaller species to swim with, so our own size will trouble us less.
Alain De Botton
#2. When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
Thomas Carlyle
#3. Wet, wet, the interior of the island, they said, bog and marsh, rivers and chains of ponds alive with metal-throated birds. The ships scraped on around the points. And the lookout saw shapes of caribou folding into fog.
Annie Proulx
#4. When the north wind blew across the tar ponds, voices were carried away.
Jonathan Campbell
#5. We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.
Joan Z. Borysenko
#6. I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?
Mikhail Bulgakov
#7. Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.
Ricardo Semler
#8. I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.
Mason Cooley
#9. You've thrown a lot of pennies in ponds," she says. "Haven't you.
J.C. Lillis
#10. The fish fanciers, sitting by their ponds and gazing into their depths, were tracing shadows darker than they understood.
Tom Holland
#11. Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
Aldous Huxley
#12. I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it.
China Machado
#13. Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones.
Dorothy Hamill
#14. Too many of you are doing great stuff in small ponds, it's time for a stir-up, break limits, break boundaries, breakthrough. Go, make it happen!
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#15. I live close to Hampstead Heath, so when I do have spare time, I like to raise my white blood cell count with a swim in the men's pond. It's an ambition of mine to swim in the ponds on every day of the year.
Bertie Carvel
#16. As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?
Loren Eiseley
#17. When the sun rises and shines,
Not all the lotus buds in the lakes and ponds bloom,
Only those that are ready, do.
The rest have to bide their time,
But all are destined to bloom,
All have to fulfill that destiny.
There is no need to despair.
Sathya Sai Baba
#18. Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually, however, religions became aquariums. Then hatcheries. From farm fingerling to frozen fish stick is a short swim.
Tom Robbins
#19. While men believe in the infinite some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths
Muhammad Ali
#21. Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring.
But who am I that I should have the best of anything?
Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free,
... beer is good enough for me.
Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves
#22. We tend to be rather murky little ponds, containing many layers of suspended dirt and grime and our greatest depths are stirred by the strangest of currents.
Irvine Welsh
#23. It is all connected Dominick," she said. "Life is not a series of isolated ponds & puddles; life is this river you see below, before you. It flows from the past through the present on it's way to the future.
Wally Lamb
#24. And let God purge this wicked sadness away with a flood, and let the waters recede to pools and ponds and ditches, and let every one of them mirror heaven. Still, they taste a bit of blood and hair.
Marilynne Robinson
#25. Listen
strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Michael Palin
#26. Don't forget that in pushing policemen into duck ponds the follow through is everything.
P.G. Wodehouse
#27. Dr. Grant was right, the feeling no longer swallows her. Bela lives on its periphery, she takes it in at a distance. The way her grandmother, sitting on a terrace in Tollygunge, used to spend her days overlooking a lowland, a pair of ponds.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#28. My perfect day is to work incredibly well in the morning and write something wonderful, then take the dog for a walk and go for a swim in the ladies' ponds on Hampstead Heath or work in my allotment. Then I get tarted up in the evening and go out in London to dinner or the cinema.
Deborah Moggach
#29. Hockey wasn't invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith's deeply personal 'Puckstruck,' sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.
Michael Winter
#30. During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature.
Luanne Rice
#31. I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.
Jo Brand
#32. So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green.
Augusten Burroughs
#33. If there are three things I've learned in my time among the fey, they are this: don't eat anything you're offered in Faeryland, don't go swimming in quiet little ponds and never, ever, make a bargain with anyone.
Julie Kagawa
#34. What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.
Douglas Booth
#35. The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.
James Fallows
#36. The night folded around them with a sweetness and poignancy heightened by the new pale stars that prickled silver fire in the water of the lily ponds, by the scented winds, and by the nearness of each other.
Pauline Gedge
#37. You may wear her in title yours: but, you know, strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds.
William Shakespeare
#38. Have just been run over by tram-car at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three pm come. Berlioz.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#39. Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
Percy Ross
#41. I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.
Gavin Extence
#42. The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven ... in the ponds broken off from the sky ...
Rainer Maria Rilke
#43. Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.
Rebecca McNutt
#44. We play hide-and-seek, wade into her ponds to fill jam jars with writhing tadpoles, and cavort with her pack of dogs, named Brandy, Whiskey, Lager, so that just calling the pack makes one feel light-headed and drunk.
Nayomi Munaweera
#45. Sing a song of Tar Ponds City, party full of lies! Four and twenty liars, seventeen hands caught in pies! When the pie was cut, Hugh Briss began to sing! Wasn't that a stonewall rat to set before the Fossil's ding?
Beatrice Rose Roberts
#46. Amy Pond is, er ... I've sort of fallen in love with Amy Pond.
Matt Smith
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. I want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.
Tim Cook
#50. 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
#51. Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?
Rupert Brooke
#52. There is a vortex of energy at the bottom of Walden Pond. That's where the inter-dimensional opening is. As people swim in Old Walden Pond, it soothes them, it renews them. It's a little bit like the pool in Cocoon - I suppose, any power spot is.
Frederick Lenz
#53. Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.
Jeanne Phillips
#54. I can't think of anyone else I'd travel around the universe with than Amy Pond.
Matt Smith
#55. 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
#56. British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."
Ben Dreyfuss
#57. Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.
Aldous Huxley
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.
Maxine Kumin
#62. All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
Claude Monet
#64. I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.
Rebecca McNutt
#65. The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.
Mark Steyn
#66. You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.
Terry Pratchett
#67. 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
#68. There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.
Carolyn Hax
#69. It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin
Donnie McClurkin
#70. [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
#72. If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters.
Prashant Iyengar
