Top 47 Water Pond Quotes
#1. American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Henry Adams
#2. Old pond - frogs jumped in - sound of water
Basho Matsuo
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
Bradley Chicho
#7. Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.
Clive James
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.
Matsuo Basho
#11. 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
#12. Watching her stroll thourgh the crowd was like watching the wind move across the surface of a pond. Except instead of casting ripples on the water, the heads of young men turned to watch her as she passed.
Patrick Rothfuss
#13. 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
#14. Oz has changed," Gert said. "The trees don't talk. The Pond of Truth tells lies, the wandering Water stays put. The Land of Naught is on fire. People are starting to get old. People are forgetting how it used tone.
Danielle Paige
#15. We'll always keep our bangles in brown pond water in the future. They're so much more beautiful that way
Tove Jansson
#16. A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#17. At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water
Matsuo Basho
#18. 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
#19. Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.
David Viscott
#20. 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
#21. When you drop a pebble into a pond, ripples spread out, changing all the water in the pool. The ripples hit the shore and rebound, bumping into one another, breaking each other apart. In some small way, the pond is never the same again.
Neal Shusterman
#22. Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.
Josh Billings
#23. People are like water in a pond where you cannot see the bottom. You think you know where it is shallow and where it is deep but it's only when you have to dive in head first that you find out where it is truly deep.
J.L. Witterick
#24. Instead,
she's as still
as a leaf-littered pond,
dark water evaporating,
waiting desperately for rain.
Emma Cameron
#25. As the moon rose before her very eyes, the first beams hit the pond, sending sparkles of light bouncing off the water. "It's beautiful."
"So are you." His voice seemed to brush across her, like soft, smooth silk.
Cat Johnson
#26. If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters.
Prashant Iyengar
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.
Matsuo Basho
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.
Robert Jordan
#40. The moon does not think to be reflected, nor does the water think to reflect, in the Hirosawa Pond.
Yamaoka Tesshu
#41. Willow trees dipped their bare branches into pond water like girls testing the temperature with their toes.
Elizabeth Berg
#42. A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black leaves and drenched grass and fallen branches, and on it, slight as an image in an eye, sky, clouds, trees, our hovering faces and our cold hands.
Marilynne Robinson
#43. Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, he poured a small amount of oleic acid, a natural surfactant which tends to form a dense film at the water-air interface.
Pierre-Gilles De Gennes
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
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