Ponds Quotes
Ponds Quote of the day
Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.
To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done?
You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.
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.
I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that.
We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.
There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.
As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?
I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.
In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.
I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters.
Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.
While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.
What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.
Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.
I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?
Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring. But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, ...beer is good enough for me.
I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.
The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.
Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.
Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.
You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.
Today I saw a guy who looked like me in a funhouse mirror. He looked at me like, Hey, that's how I look reflected in the pond!
The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.
Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.
