Lake Quotes - page 2

What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world. (Barack Obama)
Last came, and last did go, The Pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain, (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). View quote
John Milton
Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshness of a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope. View quote
Melina Marchetta
All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of Fire. (And Khufu scratching himself and grunting, but that was nothing new.) View quote
Rick Riordan
I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it. View quote
Tom Felton
My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill. View quote
Tom Felton
It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City. View quote
Hermann Maier
I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top. View quote
Hermann Maier
I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle many times, I did a misty landscape of the mountain across the lake, and the mountain became the shape of the shingle - the mountain I saw out my window, the shingle on the table in my room. I did not notice that they were alike for a long time after they were painted. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake. View quote
Edward Burnett Tylor
I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif. View quote
Elizabeth George
'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel. View quote
Kim Edwards
The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all. View quote
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact. View quote
Roseanne Barr
I would like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings. I would like to be watching Heaven's family drinking it through all eternity. View quote
Brigit of Kildare
Ayame: "Yuki, let's deepen the bond between us brothers!" Yuki: "Before you can do that I'll drown you in the deepest part of that lake." Ayame: "As long as we spend time together." Yuki: "On second thought, go drown yourself. View quote
Natsuki Takaya
... this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath... View quote
Gary Paulsen
Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training. View quote
Benjamin Millepied
I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer. (Calamity Jane)
I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids. View quote
Ernesto Bertarelli
I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing. View quote
Josh Henderson
I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home. View quote
Matt Kuchar
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean. View quote
Percy Ross