Ponds Quotes

What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.

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.

All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.

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.

Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [...] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.

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.

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.

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.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

Swim out of your little pond.

Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean!

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.

Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!

Love, we are a small pond.

And strangely enoughthe only emotion I ever feel, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden construction, which creates the tranquil pond and gives the mallards somewhere to paddle, and the pair of swans a place to conceal their young

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.

Old pond, frog jumps in - plop.

If you purify the pond, the lilies die

Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?

I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

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.

[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.

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.

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.

Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.

It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin

Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.

Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.

Old pond, leap-splash - a frog.

Amy Pond is, er...I've sort of fallen in love with Amy Pond.

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.

Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?

Empty the pond to get the fish.

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

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.

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

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 old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.

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.

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.

Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.

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

Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.