Lake Quotes
444 Lake quotes by 339 unique authors
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…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of…
— William Wordsworth
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Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever…
— Orson Scott Card
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On Monday they went out for a private picnic. On Tuesday they went for a carriage drive. On Wednesday they went to pick bluebells. On…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the…
— Jim Butcher
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Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Monsters are getting more uppity, too (...) I heard where this guy, he killed this monster in this lake, no problem, stuck its arm up…
— Terry Pratchett
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I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion…
— Stephen King
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I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I…
— Melina Marchetta
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Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage,…
— Mark Helprin
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Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.
— William Butler Yeats
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The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
— Louis Sachar
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If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are the desert, I…
— Cecilia Dart-Thornton
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One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge…
— Jonathan Stroud
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But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to my meeting place with Gale. I sit on…
— Suzanne Collins
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Ah, Jenks? It’s not a lake, it’s a friggin’ freshwater ocean. Did you see the size of the tanker going under the bridge when we…
— Kim Harrison
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I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and…
— Charlaine Harris
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Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake and came out…
— Louise Rennison
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Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful…
— Erik Larson
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If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let…
— Juliet Marillier
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The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It…
— Enid Blyton
Who Wrote These Lake Quotes
339 authors contributed a total of 444 Lake Quotes, led by these top contributors: