Ponds Quotes
192 Ponds quotes by 156 unique authors
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I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous,…
— W G Sebald
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Amy Pond: 'I thought... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.' The Doctor: 'Amy Pond, there's something you better…
— Steven Moffat
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People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step…
— Dorothy Day
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Then the other door opened. I wen't rigid. If I had thought Reth's was beautiful, it was nothing to this soul. It filled the night…
— Kiersten White
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This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from…
— Michael Palin
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We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we…
— Shane Claiborne
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Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a…
— Arthur Golden
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At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes…
— Mary Oliver
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I changed your life.” She looked down at the peach they shared. “You changed min. I’m glad of it.” And back into his eyes. “Every…
— Nora Roberts
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You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the…
— Haruki Murakami
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Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that’s been to Kelso three times, and…
— Dorothy Dunnett
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That’s where the dreams end: with the realization that it doesn’t matter where I am, whether I think I’m a woman or a fish or…
— Mira Grant
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There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We people…
— Guy de Maupassant
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This gown, is it cut from shadow?" the general asked. "I can barely feel it between my fingers." Not for want of trying, thought Madrigal.…
— Laini Taylor
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The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.
— Robert Jordan
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Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government
— Graham Chapman
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How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in…
— Mary Oliver
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Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as…
— Daniel Handler
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I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly…
— Fernando Pessoa
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I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in…
— Mindy Kaling
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After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
— Arthur Golden
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Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.
— Katherine Applegate
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Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of…
— Mary Oliver
Who Wrote These Ponds Quotes
156 authors contributed a total of 192 Ponds Quotes, led by these top contributors: