Lakes Quotes

in one of the most intensely used recreational lakes in our region, increased scenic value, and very substantial economic benefits to the Lincoln City area.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan`s heritage and its economy.

We also constructed a large portion of the road job in Celebration near Disney World, created Celebration`s golf course and built the infrastructure and bridges, lakes and waterfalls for the World Golf Village in St. Augustine.

To say the lake is any more dangerous or less dangerous, I don`t know that I can say that, and I`ve been here 24 years. I`m somewhat surprised we don`t have more accidents. But I`m pleased that a combination of a lot of things, including boater compliance to regulations and the efforts of the lake patrol, have made these lakes safe to use.

It feels real good. We had a lot of doubters this week because we made a lot mistakes in Land O` Lakes. We knew if we didn`t fumble, we could go up against anybody.

The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.

It was huge because we were just trying to kill some time off and maybe pin them back. With Palm Beach Lakes, and they`ve got guys like Brandon Heath, they`re just one play away (from scoring) and we`re 14-12 and they`re going for two trying to tie the game up.

I`m just glad we`re getting back up toward my part of the country. And they`re great fisheries. I basically got my start in the Federation (Nation) on those lakes.

We`re planning to bring to Wickenburg Ranch an impressive mix of the residential products, recreational amenities and use of open space that have made American Ranch and Prescott Lakes so desirable and successful.

Minnesotans love summer, they love their lakes, and they love virtually every type of water recreation. We`re thrilled that this love of the outdoors ¬- and our good weather throughout the show - translated to a successful show.

(But if Boyden grew up canoeing across cold-water lakes and tramping through the birch forests with his relatives, no one ever explained their connection. His parents were raised during the 1930s when native heritage was considered shameful and many mixed-race people would pretend to be white.) I think my grandmother lived with this quietly, unhappily, ... My mother just refused to recognise it so didn`t grow up with any kind of prejudice.

I always tell people that it`s not very good to put water features in a bedroom -- not even paintings of lakes and rivers -- because that could lead to losses, particularly financial losses. Sometimes it also leads to a loss in relationship.

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.