Quotes by Ponds Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond. Aldous Huxley ponds ocean lakes 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. Anne Lamott ponds expectations attention You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines, Anne Sexton ponds forgiving cutting Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was still. But one big frog, bright green like a poster-paint frog, didn't jump, so I waved my arm and stamped to scare it, and it jumped suddenly, and I jumped, and then everything in the pond jumped, and I laughed and laughed. Annie Dillard ponds scare couple After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom. Arthur Golden ponds fear water British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond." Ben Dreyfuss ponds views rooms Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net. Benjamin Franklin ponds death world 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. Beth Orton ponds frogs hours 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 Billy Collins swans ponds giving 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. Brian Tracy ponds tadpoles frogs 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. Carolyn Hax ponds bored long I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it. China Machado ponds makeup water All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was. Claude Monet ponds enchanting revelations Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail. Clive James ponds verbs water 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! Dana Gould ponds guy mirrors It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin Donnie McClurkin ponds frogs praise 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. Dorothy Day ponds deeds want 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. Dorothy Day ponds circles rights Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that’s been to Kelso three times, and they’ve never been farther than Ford in their lives.” Kate peered absently into the farm pond, and clucked again. “Thoughtless creatures. They’ve forgotten the fish. Dorothy Dunnett ponds three sheep 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. Douglas Booth ponds different trying 1234»