Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Ott

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

Nick Nuttall

Lakes are the lifeblood of millions and millions of Africans,

Thomas Friedman

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.

Bart Stupak

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.

Douglas Coupland

My brain feels like a cool, deep lake.

Ameen Rihani

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

Allen Tate

I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even by me....

Aaron Sorkin

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

John Harper

We want to try to get a better understanding of the lakes and their relation to the groundwater.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.

William Shakespeare

I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.

Anna Pavlova

Get my swan costume ready.

James Wolcott

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

James Wolcott

Slashing its way to the finish line, Black Swan is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.

Billy Collins

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

Juvenal

A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.

Juvenal

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

Bill Cosby

A pelican that is wet walks with a gated limp, but a dry fish swims alone.

John Sultan

That was an outstanding swim for Nicholas, especially under those conditions.

Andrew Tan

I swim every other day. That's my exercise.

Charles Darwin

Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.

Billie Joe Armstrong

The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

Cameron van der Burgh

Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

Cameron Crowe

I try and direct environmentally . So that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'Action'. So that they can literally be swimming in the warm water and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

Carol Browner

Although the United States has made tremendous progress cleaning up its water by removing billions of pounds of pollutants and doubling the number of waterways safe for fishing and swimming, a majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a polluted lake, river, stream or coastal area.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.