Ponds Quotes - Page 6

• Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed our wanderlust, mimicked our arteries, and charmed our imaginations in a way the static pond or vast and savage ocean never could.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Ocean, Men

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.62, Bantam

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• Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, World, Kind

  Benjamin Franklin, “Death Is A Fisherman”

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• I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that

  Patrick Dempsey

  New York, Men, Play

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• 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, you want the long form.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Long, Brain

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• I can’t think of anyone else I’d travel around the universe with than Amy Pond.

  Matt Smith

  Thinking, Amy Pond, I Can

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• Amy Pond is, er...I've sort of fallen in love with Amy Pond.

  Matt Smith

  Amy Pond, Amy, Fallen

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• What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were pushed out toward the middles of ponds or sent down autumn brooks, holding treasures of acorns, or black feathers, or a puzzled mantis? Let those grassy crafts be listed alongside the iron hulls that cleave the sea, for they are all improvisations built from the daydreams of men, and all will perish, whether from the ocean siege or October breeze.

  Paul Harding

  Ocean, Autumn, Men

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• To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content.

  Donald Hall

  Years, Ignorant, Grandfather

  Donald Hall (2015). “The Selected Poems of Donald Hall”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The moon does not think to be reflected, nor does the water think to reflect, in the Hirosawa Pond.

  Yamaoka Tesshu

  Moon, Reality, Thinking

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• It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a tangle, and seek freedom in retirement, as Thoreau sought at Walden Pond. They do not, however, in this manner escape from the social institutions of their time, nor do they really mean to do so; what they gain, if they are successful, is a saner relation to them.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Retirement, Mean, Successful

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.429, Transaction Publishers

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• 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 of galleries, primarily in New York.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, New York, Thinking

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• Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Stars, Mirrors, Light

  John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.214, Vintage

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• Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators, of life in every puddle and pond and knothole and leaf. I Travel By Night

  Robert R. McCammon

  Night, Rose, Bird

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• If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Giving

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.23, OUP Oxford

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• You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.

  Amy Tan

  Education, Reading, Writing

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.142, Penguin

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• There is a vortex of energy at the bottom of Walden Pond. That's where the inter-dimensional opening is. As people swim in Old Walden Pond, it soothes them, it renews them. It's a little bit like the pool in Cocoon - I suppose, any power spot is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Swim

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• And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high; And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die.

  Heinrich Heine

  Sweet, Swans, Two

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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• Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.

  Anna Quindlen

  Baby, Circles, Smell

  "A Short Guide to a Happy Life". Book by Anna Quindlen, 2000.

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• The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven... in the ponds broken off from the sky. . .

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sky, Rivers, Broken

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2004). “Sonnets to Orpheus”, p.32, Shambhala Publications

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• As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Crazy, Ducks, Interesting

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• Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.

  Rose Macaulay

  Thinking, Water, Important

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• A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

  Amy Tan

  Dream, Drinking, Bird

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• If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Running, Teacher, Sweet

  H. P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Voice of the Silence”, p.52, BookRix

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• If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Agency, Fishing, Voice

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• The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the spring times, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.

  Gary Zukav

  Summer, Pain, Spring

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