Ponds Quotes

Quotations list about ponds, creeks and freshwater citing Bulgarian proverbs, American Indian Proverbs and Percy Ross

  • Every frog must know its pond.

    — Bulgarian proverbs
    71
  • The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.

    — American Indian Proverbs
    16
  • Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

    — Percy Ross
    8
  • 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
    1
  • In order to create, we draw from our inner well.

    This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don

    — Julia Cameron
    0
  • It is long ere we discover how rich we are.

    Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
    0
  • Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land.

    I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.

    — John Grisham
    0
  • Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

    — John Keats
    0
  • Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

    — Alexander Herzen
    0
  • Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

    — Thomas Love Peacock
    0
  • American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

    — Henry Adams
    0
  • 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.

    — Victoria Beckham
    0
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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
    0
  • The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond;

    reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

    — Bradley Chicho
    0
  • I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds.

    I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy.

    — Steve Zahn
    0
  • 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
    0
  • When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

    — Ralph Marston
    0
  • I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

    — Anthony Michael Hall
    0
  • It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America.

    We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.

    — Dorothy Hamill
    0
  • Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.

    — Steven Wright
    0
  • You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

    — Tim Cook
    0
  • Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.

    — Nicolas Roeg
    0
  • In the next shot the cameras zoomed to the fiancee who noticed the lights in the Czarina's room go out and the camera then turned to the pond where two goldfish were making love.

    — Pola Negri
    0

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