Lakes Quotes
478 quotes by 381 authors
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in…
— Diane Ackerman
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We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of…
— Dan Aykroyd
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Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it…
— Roseanne Barr
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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
— Muhammad Ali
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I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother…
— Kyle Chandler
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Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes, and rivers, or…
— Robert E. Lee
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Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and…
— J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.
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A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step…
— Eric Sloane
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I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through…
— Brigit of Kildare
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You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.
— Paul Fleischman
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When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for…
— Pope John Paul II
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A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.
— Jim Bishop
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When the going is good and the putts are dropping, you love your putter. When it's going bad, it's like it has betrayed you and…
— Ken Green
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Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be…
— Mao Zedong
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The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line…
— Douglas MacArthur
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The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.
— Timothy Gallwey
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The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
— Benito Mussolini
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My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.
— Ben Crenshaw
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Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the…
— Pablo Neruda
Who Wrote These Lakes Quotes
381 authors contributed a total of 478 Lakes Quotes, led by these top contributors: