Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.
I will allow only my Lord to possess my sacred lotus pond, and every night you can make blossom in me flowers of fire.
If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.
You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.
Amy Pond is, er. . . I've sort of fallen in love with Amy Pond.
I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was twelve or something. I was reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance
British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond. "
And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.
Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?
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.
As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of remaining in the shadows is creating a nice little climate of panic.
Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond the pond. "That's an easy one to tell. The frog-pippit. " Then he would add, As a safety measure, "As I believe they call it in these parts. "
Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.
Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.
Old pond, leap-splash - a frog.
Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!