Ponds Quotes

• Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, World, Whole

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.282, Penguin

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• All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.

  Claude Monet

  Revelations, Enchanting

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• 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, Lakes

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• So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.

  Mary Oliver

  Rivers, Imagination, Enjoy Life

  Mary Oliver (2008). “Red Bird: Poems”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Saws, Like You

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• You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.

  Tim Cook

  Want, Pebbles, Ripple

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• A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lakes, Air, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.123, Courier Corporation

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• 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 flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?

  Walt Disney

  Nature, Lying, Flower

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• Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Women, Deeds, Stones

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• When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

  Ralph Marston

  Children, Play, Quiet Moments

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• Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Littles, Frogs

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• In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

  Vince Poscente

  Nature, Lakes, Feet

  Vince Poscente (2002). “Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery”, Invinceaility Series

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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 who are attracted by the countryside cherish fond memories of certain springs, certain woods, certain ponds, certain hills, which have become familiar sights and can touch our hearts like happy events. Sometimes indeed the memory goes back towards a forest glade, or a spot on a river bank or an orchard in blossom, glimpsed only once on a happy day, but preserved in our heart.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Memories, Spring, Eye

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• Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

  Percy Ross

  Success, Ocean, Lakes

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• Swim out of your little pond.

  Rumi

  Dream, Swim, Littles

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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

  Fear, Water, Stones

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

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• If you purify the pond, the lilies die

  William Stafford

  Lilies, Dies, Ifs

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• I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Communication, Opposites, Luxury

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.220

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• It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Long

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.376, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Love, we are a small pond.

  Maxine Kumin

  Love

  Maxine Kumin (1970). “The nightmare factory”

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• Old pond, leap-splash - a frog.

  Matsuo Basho

  Frogs, Leap

  Matsuo Basho, “The Old Pond”

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• When you make a decision and a commitment to do something good for yourself, it is like dropping a pebble in a pond. It has a rippling effect. The firmer the decision, the stronger the frequency and wider the range of things that will be reached.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Commitment, Decision, Stronger

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 09, 2016

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• While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Belief

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.487, Delphi Classics

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• December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

  John J. Geddes

  Summer, Memories, Winter

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• Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.

  William Allingham

  Spring, Sky, Wings

  'A Memory'

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