Lakes Quotations

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

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.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.

I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way.

As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.

On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.

I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me.

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.

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.

It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.

I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.

When I was very young - around the age of nine - my family used to go to a house in Somerset that my stepfather rented every summer. There was fishing, lakes and riding.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

In very general terms 'Top Of The Lake' is about good and evil. It's a deep dark mystery. It also deals with lots of fascinating human relationships, and it's also about the battle of the sexes.

When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!

Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.

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.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for five generations. I can walk the streets there and point out my father's childhood home, the houses my grandfather built, the farm where my great-great-uncle worked after he emigrated from England in the 1880s.

I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it?

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.

Polluters have mounted a public pressure campaign, even enlisting some members of Congress, to lobby EPA to weaken the law even more. For the sake of our lakes and streams and the wildlife and people who depend on them, the law needs to be strengthened, not watered down.

My goal is to make it back to the state meet again. I also want to finish high in the conference, but the Western Lakes is very strong this year. Livonia Churchill will be good again and Walled Lake Central didn't graduate anyone and they were sixth in the state last year. I expect Northville and Livonia Stevenson to be strong, too.

The lake of fire awaits my lady

May the Irish hills caress you. May her lakes and rivers bless you. May the luck of the Irish enfold you. May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.

May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you, and heaven accept you. May the Irish hills caress you. May her lakes and rivers bless you. May the luck of the Irish enfold you. May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.

She had an on-the-ground understanding of the park after walking every trail, hiking every mountain and canoeing its lakes and rivers. She combined that with an incredible grasp of the park's history, its policy and law.

We might be the land of 10,000 lakes, but if the land of 10,000 lakes are 10,000 dead lakes or 10,000 lakes that aren't very good, ducks just aren't going to come here.

If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

I want to go to New Zealand. I have no idea what it's like, and in my head, everyone lives in/on an ice lake, so I'd like to come stay.

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

Great Scot! The green pastures, the serene lakes and the magic in the summer sky are to die for.

If we're wasting water here, it implies there is water to waste. Getting our own house in order is the best way to hold off those outside the region who view the lakes as a giant canteen for their convenience.

Castillo has been huge for us, not only this year, but in the past. He's an asset on this team. He really keeps us in the games and keeps us advancing. Land O' Lakes is a good team. They always have a good program, so we weren't expecting anything easy coming up here.

Here we are now the first day of autumn and those lakes are a long way below where they should be, and we do need to be thinking about an electricity shortage in winter.

I always tell people that it's not very good to put water features in a bedroom -- not even paintings of lakes and rivers -- because that could lead to losses, particularly financial losses. Sometimes it also leads to a loss in relationship.

He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together.

We talked about the border on Blue Lakes and should we have it and blah, blah, blah.

My wife told me she met this really big kid, maybe 6-4 or 6-5, who went to Bear Lakes and didn't play basketball. We made sure he came out for the team, and he's been working hard to improve ever since. He learns something new every day.

I went over to Great Lakes and got myself a new uniform to wear,

Lakes are the lifeblood of millions and millions of Africans,

Lakes with low populations use secondary sites. That is how they maintain their small populations.

Land Between the Lakes is now open for the season and our staff have planned some phenomenal programs filled with education and fun.

Our main concern is to reduce mercury. We look at it clearly as a toxic chemical. We've been doing more testing around the state in streams and lakes and fish, and we're finding more of it.

Just about everywhere sees good crowds on opening day, but I suspect that it doesn't get as many people as a Twin Lakes or a North Park.

Just as bridges and roads crumble without adequate investment, so are the Great lakes deteriorating.

Just because a lake needs bass, it doesn't mean it's in poor shape. All lakes have good and bad years.

Rivers, streams and lakes are measurably cleaner than they were before the Clean Water Act, but we still have a long way to go.

I think that's important against Detroit Lakes because they will stack one line and we can match that, and if they don't we can match them either way.

It is not like the sky is falling. The presence of mercury in Colorado lakes is kind of spotty and it is fairly complicated because there is no pattern.

It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There is a lake near Everglades City, Deep Lake, and large tarpon show up in that lake, 30 miles from the sea.

I think we need to move forward with all the lakes in the county. That was our goal. Once we get all of those done, by then it will be probably time to go through and pick up ones where we didn't get the full 1,000 feet.

I thought we played well considering the eight-day layoff. We really played well defensively against a well-rounded Pequot Lakes team. We were also able to beat their pressure and that was the difference.

I take her around to the local lakes and watering holes. She gets right in.

Most of our local customers are retired people. They stay at home more, read a lot and want natural light. We do a lot of business in places like Sun lakes and Leisure World.

We get a lot of calls at this time of the year when everyone is greasing their reels and tying flies wondering what lakes are being planted with trout.

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!

A star is born in the teeth of the Lake Michigan wind.

This winter will be warmer and drier than usual in the southern half of the U.S., wetter and stormier in the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes down into the Ohio River Valley.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.

A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more...

If there are greater activities in Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect, within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes. But these are to be more in the Southern than the Northern Hemisphere.

If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list... Meanwhile, I get to sit back and watch for moose from the dome car as we roll through the lake-dotted vastness of the boreal forest.

We can choose to be like the Mormon pioneers, who maintained a spirit of gratitude during their slow and painful trek toward the Great Salt Lake, even singing and dancing and glorying in the goodness of God.

We didn't play well in a couple aspects of the game. Against McLean we didn't play defense and at South Lakes we didn't hit at all.

In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.

I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen.

Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind.