Lakes Quotes

478 Lakes quotes by 373 unique authors

I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan. — Jean Shepherd
Stop it." Isabelle tapped a booted foot in the shallow water at the lake's edge. "Both of you. In fact, all three of you. If… — Cassandra Clare
YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the… — Rabindranath Tagore
No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you… — Confucius
I hear voices. A shout. A laugh. Clay's laugh. I strained to see through the night. Fog had rolled in from Lake Ontario, but I… — Kelley Armstrong
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the… — Salman Rushdie
For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which,… — Virginia Woolf
After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench… — David Levithan
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....… — Andrew Carnegie
All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it.… — Mark Twain
Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of it, looking ahead… — Edward Eager
Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus,… — John Milton
In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would… — Ernest Hemingway
What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a… — Orson Scott Card
Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson." "Lake… — Louise Penny
All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of Fire. (And Khufu scratching himself… — Rick Riordan
I cannot stand people who disagree with me on the issue of Roe v. Wade... which I believe is about the proper way to cross… — Stephen Colbert
There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a… — Cassandra Clare
The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense.… — John Fowles
Shigure:"A summer home like this by the lake, you half expect JASON to show up!" Yuki: "There he goes again..." Kyo: (Thinking to himself) Jieison...Jaysun?… — Natsuki Takaya
To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing… — Fernando Pessoa
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own… — Henry David Thoreau
He was going to take a dive into this lake. He just didn’t know it. Cerise rose, finding footing in the soft mud. The water… — Ilona Andrews
Cerise ran through the course in her mind. “Three miles, stream on the right, Mozer Lake, Tinybear, Bigbear, Miller’s Path.” She paused, not sure if… — Ilona Andrews
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit… — Ben Elton

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