Lakes Quotes

• Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

  Muhammad Ali

  Religious, Greatness, Names

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• Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Nature, Stars, Flower

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• I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

  Johnny Depp

  Beer, Men, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Nature, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Nature

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• The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

  Georges Simenon

  Nature, Real, Mountain

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• For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Beach, Ocean

  E. E. Cummings, “Maggie And Milly And Molly And May”

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• It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

  Hermann Maier

  Cities, Careers, Levels

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• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

  Herbert Hoover

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

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• It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

  Georges Simenon

  Moon, Night, Two

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• If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

  Loren Eiseley

  Garden, Rivers, Water

  The Immense Journey "The Flow of the River" (1957)

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• Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

  Wallace Stevens

  Truth, Hiking, Environment

  "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction". Poem by Wallace Stevens, 1942.

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• The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

  Klaus Kinski

  Water, Over You, Mountain

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• To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Spring, Fall, Rivers

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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 has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

  Hamlin Garland

  Love, Nature, Peace

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• Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

  Germaine Greer

  Dark, Order, Light

  Daddy,We Hardly Knew You (1989)

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• My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.

  Natalie Gulbis

  Vegas, Athletic, Calendars

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

  Diane Ackerman

  Summer, Nature, Memories

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• My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill.

  Tom Felton

  Country, Sunday, America

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• I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it.

  Tom Felton

  Building, Teach, Wanted

  "Tom Felton Talks About Reading, Collecting, and Being Draco". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com.

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• We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Water, Done, Legacy

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• Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

  Jane D. Hull

  Yesterday, Flames, Cities

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• Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strong Women, Children, Parenting

  A Prairie Home Companion (radio series) (1974 - 1987)

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• Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

  Garrison Keillor

  Littles, Towns, Lake Wobegon

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• I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Morning, Rivers

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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