“[responding to scattered audience applause] Ah, lovely: the ripple, the ripple there. That's nearly the Zen clap of acceptance there, wasn't it?”

“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

“Ripples on a pond cannot touch a bird hovering above it.”

John C. Wright (1961) American novelist and technical writer

“It may be that if I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than the ripple caused by a stone thrown in a pond, but one ripple causes another.”

W. Somerset Maugham book The Razor's Edge

“In the hollow
Silver voices ripple and cry
Follow, O follow!”

Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897) English poet and critic

“It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away…”

Terry Pratchett book Reaper Man

“Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature

“These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath