Pond
A body of water, naturally or artificially confined, and usually of less extent than a lake.
To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
To ponder.
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Pond Quotations
When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
Ralph Marston
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Henry B. Adams
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow
It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.
Dorothy Hamill
I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
Patrick Dempsey
I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.
Patton Oswalt
I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.
Anthony Michael Hall
In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.
Victoria Beckham
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
Alexander Herzen
I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
Nick Lowe
Pond Translations
pond in Danish is dam
pond in Dutch is waterplas, kolk, vijver
pond in German is Stau, Teich, Teich
pond in Hungarian is tavacska
pond in Italian is vasca, laghetto, stagno
pond in Latin is lacus
pond in Portuguese is lagoa, lago
pond in Spanish is estanque, charca
pond in Swedish is damm
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