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.

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

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.

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!

Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!

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.

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

If you purify the pond, the lilies die

Old pond, frog jumps in - plop.

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.

If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters.

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

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