Lakes Quotes
478 Lakes quotes by 373 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai…
— Justina Chen
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Is there something wrong?†he asked. She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze…
— Maya Banks
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The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I am earth, earth My heart's love Bursts with hay and flowers. I am a lake of blue air In which my own appointed place…
— Thomas Merton
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Let's go. We're supposed to rendezvous with the Captain at the lake. Oh, and try to keep the noise down. You sound like a panicked…
— Maria V. Snyder
Who Wrote These Lakes Quotes
373 authors contributed a total of 478 Lakes Quotes, led by these top contributors: