Lakes Quotes
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Lakes Quotes & Sayings
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Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned.
— Orson Scott Card
Those waters which leave the main stream either cannot reach the sea and disappear in inland or find a better place, a beautiful lake.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.
— Neil Diamond
Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway.
— Janet Fitch
In Eternity, we don't exist; we are just an instrument of the Hand that created the mountains, the snow, the lakes, and the sun.
— Paulo Coelho
Rivers, water streams, water falls, water lakes, seas and oceans confirm Your creativity.
— Euginia Herlihy
I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray?
— Henry David Thoreau
I was busier than a beaver in a coffee lake.
— Scott Adams
Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.
— Gaylord Nelson
Gratitude is the experience of our true self.
— Gina Lakes
In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.
— Rabindranath Tagore
I seem to be inside a kind of artificial environment. Almost like a ... a simulacrum of Reiden Lake.
— Christa Faust
O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.
— John Milton
Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.
— Monica Baldwin
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
— Oscar Wilde
If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.
— Theodore Gordon
The lakes in Washington State give us tons of crawfish.
— Tom Douglas
Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble ... that's what I'm in need of.
— Karen Walker
She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.
— Elvis Costello
I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?
— Dylan Moran
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.
— E. M. Forster
Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Lakes, rivers, streams ... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.
— Muhammad Ali
Marilyn Manson is simply too dangerous for Darien Lake.
— Marilyn Manson
A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything
— Robert Adams
Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish them dry.
— Sharon Gannon
You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.
— Paul Fleischman
I grew up in a small village close to a big lake. There are heavy winds there, and they always sound different. I like these sounds best.
— Christian Fennesz
The mind should turn into a serene and stormless lake, where is reflected the complete panorama of the starry sky.
— Samael Aun Weor
My garden is a forest ledgeWhich older forest s bound;
The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge,
Then plunge to depths profound! — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the holiday.
— Roger Bannister
There were all sorts of myths and legends surrounding the lake. I mean, we're Indians, and we like to make up shit about lakes, you know?
— Sherman Alexie
A star is born in the teeth of the Lake Michigan wind.
— Brent Musburger
I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There is water in the carburetor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake."
— Henny Youngman
When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.
— Franz Liszt
Near the lake where drooped the willow, Long time ago!
— George Pope Morris
The country is an archipelago of lakes,the lake-country of New England. — Henry David Thoreau
Absolutely nothing was happening in my marriage. I nicknamed my waterbed, Lake Placid!
— Phyllis Diller
The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers.
— Hilda Conkling
High school is worse than having to swim through multiple prahana filled lakes- and that's before the truckload of homework.
— Taylor Gaskins
Some people look like frozen lakes; break the ice, there you will see a lively world!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again.
— Sara Coleridge
When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.
— Herman Melville
Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
— John Ortberg
Rolling country, not yet quite mountainous, with woods and lakes, is what I like best.
— Franz Kafka
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.
— Elsie De Wolfe
Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.
— Billy Collins
I saw a seagull hanging out by a lake, but I said, "Don't worry, Dude. I won't say anything."
— Mitch Hedberg
We've all got troubles. We all make mistakes. But let's not take a little river turn it into lake.
— Jennifer Love Hewitt
Books, games, jigsaws, as well as the soaring fells and sparkling lakes that would revive their spirits beyond all imagining.
— Rebecca Tope
Aquarium fishes even if they only imagine going to a lake, the windows of that aquarium will become thinner than before.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.
— Izaak Walton
Lake quiets, tired of my lies.
— Deborah Ager
About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.
— Arnold Gingrich
I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.
— Bertrand Russell
People conquered on different sides of the lake should be ruled on different sides of the lake.
— Genghis Khan
The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.
— Wilkie Collins
There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish.
— Lee Wulff
The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.
— Henry David Thoreau
It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.
— James A. Michener
Um ,sorry. I cant read the last line.""Fish. Have you stolen any fish from the holy lakes?"
"I lived in Kansas..So ..no — Rick Riordan
We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.
— Hillary Clinton
The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
— Benito Mussolini
Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,whither it flows back again. — John Sterling
Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Lake is jealous of mountain; mountain is jealous of lake!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).
— John Milton
The mind is like a lake lashed into waves. Make the water of the lake clear and calm.
— Swami Prabhavananda
No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.
— Elsie De Wolfe
Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.
— Lorine Niedecker
