Lakes Quotes
478 Lakes quotes by 373 unique authors
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I have never seen white so absolute / And alone, glistening in awkward form / Dreaming across the water a bright path. / As it…
— John O'Donohue
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Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds…
— Kathleen McDonald
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In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.
— Gaylord Nelson
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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble…
— Martial
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There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Marilyn Manson is simply too dangerous for Darien Lake.
— Marilyn Manson
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The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake…
— Carl Hiaasen
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The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever-- The union of hearts--the union of hands-- And the flag of…
— George Pope Morris
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If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then…
— Chanakya
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.
— John Muir
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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
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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
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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
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She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.
— Elvis Costello
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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
Who Wrote These Lakes Quotes
373 authors contributed a total of 478 Lakes Quotes, led by these top contributors: