Puddles Quotes

• CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

  Michael K. Williams

  Educational, Opportunity, Childhood

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• The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

  e. e. cummings

  Summer, Nature, Spring

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• Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.

  Maria Montessori

  Running, Morning, Children

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• Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life, Ocean, People

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.109, University of Illinois Press

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• it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, World, Wonderful

  "Chansons Innocentes: I" l. 9 (1923)

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• Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?

  Bill Watterson

  Real, Reflection, Wonder

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Comic strip by Bill Watterson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 1985 – December 31, 1995.

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• Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful

  Thomas M. Disch

  Nature, Mud Puddles, World

  Thomas M. Disch (2000). “The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Every path hath a puddle.

  George Herbert

  Adversity, Path

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.148

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• Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in; fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well! It must have been made to have me in it!

  Douglas Adams

  Witty, Morning, Thinking

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.130, Del Rey

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• Don't cross oceans for people who wouldn't cross a puddle for you.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Ocean, People

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• Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fun, Sea, Joy

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• It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Sea, Water

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

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• Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry
   because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

  Valerie Worth

  Mud, Way, Lost

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• We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need -- the umbrella of God's love.

  Barbara Johnson

  Rainbow, Needs, Trouble

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.69, Zondervan

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• A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

  Alexander Smith

  Wisdom, Stars, Science

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.146

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• If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.

  Russell Simmons

  Beautiful, Encouragement, Rushing

  Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2011). “Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All”, p.12, Penguin

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• No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist.

  Chris Hardwick

  Inspiring, Zero, Famous Inspirational

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.37, Penguin

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• In a puddle, ask for a pool; in a pool, ask for a lake; in a lake, ask for an ocean. This is the way for a frog to reach the stars!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stars, Ocean, Lakes

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• Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

  Valerie Worth

  Feelings, Important, Mud Puddles

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• I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he pointed down and said, 'Look.' I looked and all I saw was water. And he said, 'Look again,' which I did, and I saw oil on the water and the city reflected in the puddle. It was a great revelation to me. I can't explain it. He taught me how to see, and how to trust what I saw. Painters have often taught writers how to see. And once you've had that experience, you see differently.

  James A. Baldwin

  Writing, Light, Cities

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• Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.

  Dogen

  Life, Moon, Light

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• A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.

  Publilius Syrus

  Gold, Thrones, Frogs

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• If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?

  Colin Wilson

  Hands, Tree, Training

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• People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  People, Too Much, Emotion

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid. Why try to make me like you? Why are you hurt when I don't cuddle? Why do you sigh when I splash through a puddle? Why do you scream when I do what I did? Im a kid.

  Shel Silverstein

  Hurt, Kids, Trying

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