George W. Bush Quotes, Names Quotes, Lakes Quotes

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)

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I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.

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I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake.

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Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.

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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.

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The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

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I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake.

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No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

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Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

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Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

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Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.

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I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

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In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

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Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.

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The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.

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I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

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Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.

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What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!

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