Lake Quotes
444 Lake quotes by 339 unique authors
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I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake.
— George W. Bush
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A man who lives with intentions is bound to feel frustration. A man who lives with expectations is bound to feel frustrated because existence has…
— Rajneesh
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When called to the Council of the Twelve, October 4, 1963, he said in the Salt Lake Tabernacle: I think of a little sister, a…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the…
— William Butler Yeats
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Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible…
— Gautama Buddha
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Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen.…
— Gautama Buddha
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Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of…
— Gautama Buddha
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Watersheds come in families; nested levels of intimacy... As you work upstream toward home, you're more closely related. The big river is like your nation,…
— Michael Parfit
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I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and…
— Gautama Buddha
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I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to…
— Oriah Dreamer
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Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved by…
— William Kittredge
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Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in…
— Fred Reed
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It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would rise like the…
— Binyavanga Wainaina
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It's true. We're really working hard to make Incline Lake a reality, but that doesn't mean that we're not focused on other projects to improve…
— Unknown Author
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A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be…
— John Keats
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Salvation in its true and full meaning is synonymous with exaltation or eternal life and consists in gaining an inheritance in the highest of the…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as…
— Martin Luther
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When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.
— Franz Liszt
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We cannot continue to mourn about our country being poor while our minerals are lying untapped and with harvesting at Lake Natron, we will not…
— Jakaya Kikwete
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I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill,…
— William Butler Yeats
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Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the…
— Ramakrishna
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Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell…
— Erik Larson
Who Wrote These Lake Quotes
339 authors contributed a total of 444 Lake Quotes, led by these top contributors: