Lakes Quotes

We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly.

Before there is peace, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.

Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?

These enthusiasts often like to hang signs that say "Gone Fishin'" or "Gone Huntin'". But what these slogans really mean is "Gone Killing.

If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.

Lotta people don't know where Utah is but it in Salt Lake.

We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know how to clean and fry a fish.

Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.

I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain

I have other fish to fry.

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain in the capture of one Frigate, one Brig and two sloops of war of the enemy.

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

The mind is like a lake lashed into waves. Make the water of the lake clear and calm.

Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on The troubled waters of a lake, 'Twill form in circles round succeeding round; Each wider than the first.

This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams--I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace.

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit.

When my wife drives, there's always trouble. The other day she took the car. She came home. She told me, There's water in the carburetor. I asked her, Where's the car? She said, In a lake.

There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't.

The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers.

When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the depths, I became very still.

The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.

The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith.

. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman

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.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson." "Lake and Palmer?" "Ralph and Waldo.

It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.