Top 45 Pond Quotes

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing – just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that’s just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I’m a green guy.

There are certain times you realize you’ve got too much money. One was when I started getting bills from the Koi hotel. When I was remodeling the Koi pond, the Koi had to go to the Koi hotel. They ended up staying there for 13 months and I never asked what the bill was.

I’ve had boyfriends I’ve dated whom I met as Courtney, but then dated as Shane. Courtney can certainly act as a glamorous stepping stone across the pond.

Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it’s dangerous.

I nearly drowned in a park pond when I was six years old and I’ve been terrified of water ever since.

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.

In America, they say, you can take a horse to the pond, but you can’t make him drink. My way is different. I only take the horse to the pond to make him drink. If he doesn’t, I’ll cut his head off.

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.

Debt vultures are really the scum at the bottom of the pond. These are guys who buy up the debts of the world’s poorest countries on the secondary market. You can go buy debts of a country like Peru, for example, at a real discount. Why? Because people think that the debts won’t be repaid.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

I have been involved with U.S. Soccer for 30 years, and I don’t remember one senior woman in the organization that you would deal with on a daily basis in a position that was making decisions. That is a huge issue. How many times do you hear, ‘There are no women around?’ Well, they are fishing in the wrong pond.

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

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.

In the next shot the cameras zoomed to the fiancee who noticed the lights in the Czarina’s room go out and the camera then turned to the pond where two goldfish were making love.

I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn’t really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young – ‘Harriet the Spy’, ‘Charlotte’s Web’, ‘The Witch of Blackbird Pond’, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’.

I think in both of those situations, it’s important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it’s important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I’m not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

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.

I tell aspiring entrepreneurs all the time: Validate your idea locally. Get some experience under your belt. Prove your idea has legs where you are. Spend some time as a big fish in a small pond. Demonstrate that there’s a there there… there. Where you live.

As an actor, what’s interesting is what’s hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond – very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

My favorite place to read is next to the pond in my backyard.

Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.

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.

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.

You don’t want to end up being an indie wrestler who wants to be the big fish in a small pond.

Nothing changes overnight unless you win an Oscar. You move up a little bit, but you are always a little fish – just in a slightly bigger pond.

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.

My life was going to school, having a snack and going outside to play hockey until dinner time. I would then do my homework and go back out to play, but only if the Canadiens weren’t playing that night. That’s what I did every day, whether it was street hockey or pond hockey.

Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it’s public records or ethics, it’s not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It’s like throwing a boulder.

A chap was digging a pond for his carp in the garden behind his terraced house in the small town of Raunds, when he unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon body. Because he’d seen ‘Time Team’, he knew exactly what to do with it – he cleaned it very respectfully and then called the local archaeologist, who called us in.

Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration’s enormous, taxpayer-funded ‘investments’ in politically connected biofuel companies.

There’s a little pond near my house, and I see two swans there all the time who are obviously in love. But they look like the same bird, so I don’t know if they’re male or female, but they’re definitely in love.

You can be a big fish in a small pond, but you’re only going to be competing against people at that level.

I look forward to Pond’s products to deliver better skincare for girls everywhere.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.

I have family in Tanzania. I can’t even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

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.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!

There is just something about being out in open country, about seeing the sun rise over a pond, that’s really beautiful.

I was a lone duck in a swan-filled pond who criticized everyone.

I loved acting and wanted to be a leading man. But I decided I’d rather be a big fish in the stuntman pond than a little acting fish. I guess I must have made the right decision.

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.

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.