Lake Quotes

• President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the gift to love, and eagerness, yes, longing to express it in soul development, make motherhood the noblest office or calling in the world. . .' (Gospel Ideals, Salt Lake City: Improvement Era, 1953, pp. 453-54).

  

  H. Burke Peterson
  • World
  • Children
  • Soul

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

  

  Edward Burnett Tylor
  • Great
  • Period
  • Lake

• We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • House
  • Bigs
  • Feet

• Last came, and last did go,The Pilot of the Galilean lake;Two massy keys he bore of metals twain,(The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

  

  John Milton
  • Lake

• Growing up, I was the only Indian kid around for miles, so I ached to belong. I had a neighborhood pack of nine guys and two girls, and we hung out all the time. We played football, baseball, and broom-hockey on the iced-up lake.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Heart
  • Lake
  • Depths

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

  

  Percy Ross
  • Ocean
  • Lake

• Personally, I'm incredibly lucky to represent the 10th district of Illinois, which stretches from the edges of Cook county all the way north along Lake Michigan to the borders of Wisconsin. From the lake all the way west to Fox Lake. It's an incredible district.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Lake

• I applaud the work of Clean Power Lake County in their leadership to call for Lake County to build a just transition from coal to clean energy, and I'm proud their work will be highlighted on the national stage for TV viewers around the country.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Work
  • Country
  • Power

• 'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

  

  Benjamin Millepied
  • Work
  • Training
  • Ballet

• 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.

  

  David Wenham
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Dark

• My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area.

  

  John Lasseter
  • She
  • Brother
  • Professional

• I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • Lake

• When I was a boy, one of my uncles had a cabin on a lake in Wisconsin. My family went there for parts of three summers, and I loved it!

  

  Kevin Henkes
  • Family
  • Boy
  • Lake

• I guess because I came to it later in life, I realized, 'Oh, going to a fashion show is like going to the opening of Degas at the Met or going to see Swan Lake.'

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Lake

• For nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • She
  • Nature

• I was in a lake in 'Love Actually', and I was attacked by some hideous aquatic beast and was rushed to the hospital by a man named Rafael! Something stung my elbow, and it blew up to the size of a tennis ball.

  

  Colin Firth
  • Up
  • Tennis
  • Lake

• When you're working on a lake and it's dark and cold out and you can't see what's underwater, it is freaking scary!

  

  Jessica Szohr
  • Dark
  • Cold
  • Scary

• I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea is not human, And here is no shore, no intimacy, Only the start of space, the road to suns.

  

  F. R. Scott
  • Night
  • Space
  • Water

• What was pretty crazy was to plan a wedding around a tour. It felt very getting-hitched-in-Vegas style. It was like, we played a show in Salt Lake City, ran to New Mexico, we got married, and then I was off to Lisbon.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Pretty
  • City
  • Crazy

• I like characters who have two different things going on, whether it is Robin from 'Top Of The Lake' having that strength juxtaposed with the vulnerability and being in pain, or whether it is Peggy from 'Mad Men' with her naivety and her sort of idiocy at times, combined with her intelligence and courage really to do what she did at that time.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • Time
  • Men
  • Different

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

  

  Allen Tate
  • Buried
  • Canyons
  • Opaque

• I like speed, so I like taking the jet skis out and hitting the water, or hitting the lake. In the winter, unfortunately, I used to ski a lot but I haven't been able to ski in the past few years because thank God I've been working, so that's a good reason not to.

  

  Laz Alonso
  • Good
  • God
  • Past

• 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.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Cancer
  • Lake

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