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Lake Quotes

I contemplated the lake: the waters were placid; all around was calm, and the snowy mountains, “the palaces of nature,” were not changed.

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 7. Victor gets himself into such a state over his William’s murder that only one thing can calm him. Nature and the landscape around him.

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I’m still at the top.

– Hermann Maier

It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

– Hermann Maier

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

– Georges Simenon

One of my favorite places on the planet is a place in northern Michigan: Long Lake in Traverse City.

– Gregory H. Johnson

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

– Graeme Murphy

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.

– John Tesh

Lake Como has always been a magnet for the elite.

– Janine di Giovanni

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

– Jane D. Hull

I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.

– John Burroughs

Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing.

– Charles Duhigg

From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.

– James Monroe

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

– Bryan Batt

My ideal date would involve a park or rowing in those little boats on a lake.

– Aja Naomi King

I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and all its doorways on a key ring. Salons, mansions, alleys, courtrooms, depots, factories, hotels, police cells, the lake front, the rooftops and the sidewalks were my haberdashery.

– Ben Hecht

I grew up in Lake Orion, Mich. What was best about Lake Orion where, where we grew up was it was a suburb of Detroit but had a lot of open space around.

– Andrew J. Feustel

Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival.

– Austin Peck

All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn’t want to be backstage, warming up.

– Chet Faker

One of my oldest friends has a cottage on Smoke Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park, and it’s one of my favorite places in the world.

– Alexi Zentner

I first came across ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ in college, with other anthologized poems by Yeats.

– Billy Collins

Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

– Carl Hagelin

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

– Bob Balaban

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

Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I’m going to be governor.

– Bill Scott

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

Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.

– Carl Hagelin

My drummer, Gene Lake, is Oliver Lake’s son. So I certainly have wide tastes, in not only what I listen to, but what I play as well.

– David Sanborn

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

– Garrison Keillor

I am grateful my own eternal companion served a mission in Hawaii before we were married in the Salt Lake Temple, and I am pleased that I have had three granddaughters serve full-time missions.

– Ezra Taft Benson

Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and ready for action.

– Nate Holland

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