Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New…

Near the lake where drooped the willow, Long time ago!

— George Pope Morris

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

— Nick Lowe

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of…

— Haruki Murakami

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

— Jodi Picoult

For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;...…

— Henry David Thoreau

I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I…

— Johnny Cash

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

— Aldous Huxley

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned…

— Anna Sewell

And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.

— Maxine Kumin

The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.

— Matsuo Basho

Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see…

— John Burnham Schwartz

I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.

— Stacy Keibler

Swim out of your little pond.

— Rumi

Empty the pond to get the fish.

— Robert Bresson

You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.

— Terry Pratchett