Ponds Quotes

192 Ponds quotes by 156 unique authors

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect… — Thomas Kinkade
Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond! — Sark
The moon does not think to be reflected, nor does the water think to reflect, in the Hirosawa Pond. — Yamaoka Tesshu
The IRS wants you to use this form because it gets to keep most of your money. So unless you have pond silt for brains,… — Dave Barry
I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles… — Mark Haddon
I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up… — Patton Oswalt
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean. — Percy Ross
We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes… — Lewis Thomas
Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous. — Steven Wright
Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone. — Matsuo Basho
I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful… — Stephen R. Lawhead
As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of remaining in the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or… — Henry David Thoreau
[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
So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind… — Augusten Burroughs
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
Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of… — Walt Disney
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

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