Whales Quotes - Page 10

• John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the survival of its community. I think of my family stories-Mother's in particular-how much I need them now, how much I will need them later. It has been said when an individual dies, whole worlds die with them. The same could be said of each passing whale.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother, Thinking, Community

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.175, Vintage

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• I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors.

  Christine Feehan

  Beautiful, California, Hiking

  Christine Feehan (2016). “Fire Bound”, p.200, Penguin

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• Also, in the category of 'obvious but still shocking,' an animal called a 'killer whale' killed someone who was trying to play with it. Now, no one knows exactly what enraged the whale, but earlier in the week, it had been thrown off a flight by Southwest Airlines.

  Bill Maher

  Animal, Play, Trying

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• Shoes off in the whale! And don't try and make a break for the anus.

  Christopher Moore

  Shoes, Trying, Anus

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• I don’t know. There are times when I get the feeling he can’t tell me from Nynia. I think he loves her more than me. (Sunshine) No offense, but that’s stupid. You and Talon are soulmates. He will always love you no matter who or what you are. You, my friend, could come back as a humpback whale and he would love you. He can’t help it. The two of you are destined for each other. (Psyche)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Soulmate, Stupid, Love You

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Night Embrace”, p.237, Hachette UK

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• Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.

  Rick Danko

  Gun, Hunting, Water

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• And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of ; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone ; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

  Herman Melville

  Real, College, Men

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.108

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• Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hands, Amusement, Tubs

  Jonathan Swift, William Wotton (1811). “A tale of a tub,: written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, An account of a battle between the ancient and modern books in St. James's Library”, p.43

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• Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it's worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far, far more jobs to people than whaling ever did. Whale watching has become an ally in the fight to end whaling.

  Paul Watson

  Jobs, Fighting, Animal

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• I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.

  Muhammad Ali

  Mean, Greatness, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Mar 04, 2013

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• Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I’m free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeon’s wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wall, Home, Thinking

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.120, Random House

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• The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale.

  Thomas Paine

  Ideas, Miracle, Religion

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.46, e-artnow

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• I attempt to surf. Im not as good as anyone else in the water. Im more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!

  Olesya Rulin

  Men, Water, My Boyfriend

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• Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

  John Green

  Blue, Skinny, Rich

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.16, Penguin

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• When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

  Mark Twain

  Ocean, Creativity, Sleep

  Mark Twain (2011). “Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn”, p.320, NewSouth Books

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• I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Laughter, Real, Humor

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• I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

  Nicolas Cage

  Animal, Bird, Fascination

  "Nicolas Cage Only Eats Animals With 'Dignified' Manner in Sex" by celebrity-mania.com, May 19, 2010.

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• Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw in a few cover songs like Enya's "Watermark," Bach, and my dad's song, "Song for the Whales."

  Petra Haden

  Song, Dad, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity capable of maintaining the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs and endowed with faculties and powers far beyond those of its constituent parts.

  James Lovelock

  Atmosphere, Viruses, Needs

  James Lovelock, J. E. Lovelock (2000). “Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth”, p.9, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruellest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life, from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth.

  James Lovelock

  Wise, Thinking, Our World

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• Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.

  Florence King

  Reading, Cutting, Style

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.168, Macmillan

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• There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.

  Tom Robbins

  Wise, People, Groups

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.152, Bantam

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• She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale. "DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted. Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts." "That's not any better!

  John Green

  Sorry, Alaska, Body

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.51, Penguin

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• All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Men, Your Side

  Herman Melville (2015). “Moby-Dick: World Classics”, p.327, World Classic

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• The rewards we get by being those weird guys going against the grain to me are way more massive than selling a million billion records. I like climbing mountains or going on undersea dives for whales and stuff like that.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Climbing, Guy, Mountain

  Interview with Joseph Hooper, www.elle.com. April 15, 2009.

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