Lakes Quotes

Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.

It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.

Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great lakes - very important and strategic.

The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.

You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.

Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a lot easier than it was.

IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie.

Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.

All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.

The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself

[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's a type of serial killer, but I don't know.

The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.

The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned

When the going is good and the putts are dropping, you love your putter. When it's going bad, it's like it has betrayed you and you want to throw the sucker in a lake.

The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

I can't wait to have kids one day. I want to have kids and a farm with lots of animals on a lake.

I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so.

Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.

...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series.

The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.

Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.

At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia, are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts.

Marilyn Manson is simply too dangerous for Darien Lake.

I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

That which we look on with unselfish love And true humility is surely ours, Even as a lake looks at the stars above And makes within itself a heaven of stars.

I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home.

Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!

All the streams carry the wisdom of the forest to the lake, and over there, silence replaces the noise!

Aquarium fishes even if they only imagine going to a lake, the windows of that aquarium will become thinner than before.

Lake is jealous of mountain; mountain is jealous of lake!

Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake!

Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!

The beauty of a house by the lake side in the middle of wilderness can best be appreciated not by those who permanently live in the house but by the travellers passing by!

Those waters which leave the main stream either cannot reach the sea and disappear in inland or find a better place, a beautiful lake.

Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!

Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.

Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear it the whole time." Thank you. Do you want something?

Place gifts of silver in our hands. Give us this day our daily fish.

We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared.

I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.