Top 303 Pond Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance
The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.
I've always done pretty well for myself here in the U.K., but I was never going to be content being a big fish in a small pond.
I look forward to Pond's products to deliver better skincare for girls everywhere.
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 a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.
A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.
If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters.
To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.
You can be a big fish in a small pond, but you're only going to be competing against people at that level.
My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy.
Even nowadays some people see me as a "vreemde eend in de bijt" [translated literally as the strange duck in the pond. In other words, an outsider].
I went from being a big fish in a small pond to going to City with a lot of top players, I felt like I had to work really hard to be the best.
I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
We have three and a half acres, complete with duck pond and wildflower meadow and open annually by appointment as part of the National Gardens Scheme.
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.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
You don't want to end up being an indie wrestler who wants to be the big fish in a small pond.
Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.
Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.
December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.
Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean!
I've said on one of my shows that I'd like to marry the character Amy Pond, not the actress who plays her.
Being happy is a revolutionary act; I think it spreads, like ripples in a pond.
A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
There is just something about being out in open country, about seeing the sun rise over a pond, that's really beautiful.
It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.
You know you are grown sentimental when you start counting the cygnets on the duck pond in the park to be sure none has perished since you counted last.
A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.
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 don't like lakes generally. It's a glorified pond, isn't it? I live by the sea, so for me I need to taste salt. I prefer the mystery, the majesty of the sea.
Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.
It was like putting your foot into a pond and knowing that I wanted to dive into this. It wasn't even just acting. It was this medium, film. I had to explore it.
It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.
I will allow only my Lord to possess my sacred lotus pond, and every night you can make blossom in me flowers of fire.
I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence.
Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box!
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.
I wonder
if there are any catfish
in this pond? It seems like
a perfect place for them.
I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.
Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.
Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.
Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.
Rin slept inside the oak’s thought. Its own memories of weather and growth continued to hum, and like a pond, its stillness reflected back herself.
I'm never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond.
In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.
Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.
When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.
Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.
When I was really young I used to collect frog spawn. I made a pond out of an old sink and I loved to spend hours watching the frogs grow.
Breaking the silence
Of an ancient pond,
A frog jumped into water -
A deep resonance.
Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.
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.
The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
That’s where the dreams end: with the realization that it doesn’t matter where I am, whether I think I’m a woman or a fish or something in-between. I’ve never really left the pond. I still can’t breathe.
