Lakes Quotes · Page 7

The mind is like a lake lashed into waves. Make the water of the lake clear and calm.

— Swami Prabhavananda

If you live in the mountains, you long for the trees and the lakes.

— Mitt Romney

To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

— Harold Russell

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

— Timothy Gallwey

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

— Rafael Sabatini

One little leak becomes a lake, Says the tiny voice in my earpiece

— Thom Yorke

The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.

— Jane D. Hull

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

— Graeme Murphy

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure…

— Ernest Hemingway

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

— Ann Landers

Observe the life like a wise tree by the side of a calm lake! Do not move; just sit and observe! Observe…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have a house on the lake, and I must say, sitting on the dock and taking long morning swims or naked…

— Christine Baranski

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

— Paul Schullery

For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes,…

— Mark Foley

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited…

— David James Duncan

Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the…

— D.T. Suzuki

In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too…

— Thomas McGuane

The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful…

— Douglas MacArthur

Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis…

— Jack Ohman

I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu: Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon Lake Until you see the Monastery of the West Tower straight and…

— Arthur Davison Ficke

In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley.…

— Stuart Campbell

Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a…

— Haruki Murakami

I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the…

— Marcia Gay Harden

The future of America may or may not bring forth a black President, a woman President, a Jewish President, but it most…

— Arthur Kroker

The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many.…

— William O. Douglas

When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At…

— Alberto Villoldo

When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's…

— Terry Tempest Williams

There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the…

— Haruki Murakami

But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as…

— Anonymous

We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they…

— Muhammad Ali

Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.

— Haruki Murakami

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

— William Wordsworth

My dream is to buy a yacht and to swim around Polish lakes.

— Iga Swiatek

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

— Theodore Gordon

I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

— Calamity Jane

...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

— Arnold Gingrich

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

— Herbert Hoover

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

— Georges Simenon