Lakes Quotes · Page 43

We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along…

— Garrison Keillor

I want you to know that should something happen to me, don’t worry about my body. My soul isn’t going to return…

— Paullina Simons

Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.

— Anonymous

The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain in the capture of one Frigate, one Brig…

— Thomas Macdonough

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

— Robert Hughes

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

— Sara Paretsky

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls...

— Jim Harrison

Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has…

— John Gierach

My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a…

— William Saroyan

Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.

— Daniel Lanois

It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

— Louis Sachar

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

— John Milton

Is there something wrong?” he asked. She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a…

— Maya Banks

I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape.

— Joe Hockey

[W]atching ducks land on a lake in Arkansas in the winter is about the closest to Heaven as you can find on…

— Mike Huckabee