Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs. — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
At least five cents in every acre should be reserved for the construction of ponds to store rainwater. — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond? — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a… — Kim Ki-duk Copy Share Image
Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a… — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in… — Melissa Coleman Copy Share Image
Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
"Summer Sisters" is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion.… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
All over East Africa-indeed, all over Africa-it is normal for people to walk a kilometer or two or six for water. In… — Marq de Villiers Copy Share Image
Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
You'll come to my grave? To tell me your problems?" My problems? "Yes.' And you'll give me answers? "I'll give you what… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life. — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
