Lakes Quotes

478 Lakes quotes by 373 unique authors

If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and… — Bart Stupak
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and… — Mark Kostabi
All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish in… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light. — John Muir
Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing in the light!… — John James Audubon
It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are… — Theodore Roosevelt
She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake. — Elvis Costello
Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual,… — Arthur Lismer
It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon… — Jack Gilbert
We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty tree root-bound or… — Alan Cohen
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One aspect to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like… — William Wordsworth
In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the… — Ernest Hemingway
I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track… — Matt Skiba
My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz… — Judd Apatow
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon… — Hamlin Garland
Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing… — Seth Godin
I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm… — Ellie Goulding
We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting… — Jennifer Granholm
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. — Germaine Greer
I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something. — Johnny Depp
I can't wait to have kids one day. I want to have kids and a farm with lots of animals on a lake. — Kirsten Dunst
My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill. — Tom Felton

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