Pond Quotes

194 Pond quotes by 158 unique authors

[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for… — Ray Bradbury
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to… — Thomas Merton
Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as… — Ray Bradbury
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of… — Edith Sitwell
Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was… — Annie Dillard
It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it. — Henry David Thoreau
She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined… — Janet Fitch
Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly… — Louise GluÌˆck
Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over... — Sarah Dessen
Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows.… — Amy Tan
I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I… — Sarah Monette
A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black leaves… — Marilynne Robinson
Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond… — Richard Brautigan
Rather, very, little, pretty -- these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the… — William Strunk, Jr.
Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the… — John Steinbeck
The surface of the pond was green with fallen leaves. "How could you have been happy there? I know what you thought, but Valentine was… — Cassandra Clare
And it is clear to Evan, now: the difference between what is and what has been done; the present and the past. He sees that… — Garth Stein
Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond? — Lisi Harrison
Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems… — Sherwood Smith
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

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