Lakes Quotes
478 Lakes quotes by 373 unique authors
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Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams--I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean…
— Susan Cohn Rockefeller
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The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in the…
— Hilda Conkling
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I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and…
— Gautama Buddha
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I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to…
— Oriah Dreamer
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Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved by…
— William Kittredge
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Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in…
— Fred Reed
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It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would rise like the…
— Binyavanga Wainaina
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I am shocked, truly shocked. I was in Siberia a few weeks ago, and I am now just back in from the field in Alaska.…
— Unknown Author
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It's true. We're really working hard to make Incline Lake a reality, but that doesn't mean that we're not focused on other projects to improve…
— Unknown Author
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We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water.…
— Muhammad Ali
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A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be…
— John Keats
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Salvation in its true and full meaning is synonymous with exaltation or eternal life and consists in gaining an inheritance in the highest of the…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as…
— Martin Luther
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When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.
— Franz Liszt
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We cannot continue to mourn about our country being poor while our minerals are lying untapped and with harvesting at Lake Natron, we will not…
— Jakaya Kikwete
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I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill,…
— William Butler Yeats
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It…
— Hamlin Garland
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Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the…
— Ramakrishna
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As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for…
— Debbie Stabenow
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Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell…
— Erik Larson
Who Wrote These Lakes Quotes
373 authors contributed a total of 478 Lakes Quotes, led by these top contributors: