Blackbirds Quote by Bobbie Ann Mason

Empty the pond to get the fish.

— Robert Bresson

Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great…

— Jakob Bohme

As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of…

— Loren Eiseley

Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.

— Willy Ley

My love and I are inventing a country, which we can already see taking shape, as if wheels were passing through yellow mud. But…

— Larry Levis

After a day's fishing, I'll know the solution to something or have good ideas that were not accessible before.

— Angus Deaton

A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black…

— Marilynne Robinson

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long…

— Brandi Carlile

The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us…

— Aldo Leopold

In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one.

— Yosa Buson

“Postscript And some time make the time to drive out west Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore, In September or October, when the…

— Seamus Heaney

We want transportation as reliable as running water.

— Travis Kalanick