Fishes Quotes - Page 23

• Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Fishing, Progress

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.367, Modern Library

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• If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to some swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strong, Animal, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.93, Penguin

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• If a fish feels sad when a fisherman's boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Compassion, Enemy, Treasure

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• If the universe has an end, it means we are captive fishes in an aquarium! If it has no end, we are lost sheep in the eternal darkness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mean, Sheep, Aquariums

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• If you are a fish, stay away from the fishhook; if you are a lover, stay away from the suspicion.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lovers, Suspicion, Ifs

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• If you have a guru, leave him; if you don't have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean's wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Knowing, Storm

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• Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Book, Frying Pans, Holy

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• The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.

  Zhuangzi

  Forget, Traps

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• ... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.

  Mary Oliver

  Running, Thinking, Rivers

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.

  Edward Abbey

  Integrity, Vegetables, Cover Ups

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• I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.

  Sarah Palin

  Needs, Defense, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision.

  Dick Francis

  Ideas, Swim, Mind

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• I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.

  Raffaella Barker

  Sunset, Sea, Sky

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• A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

  Oliver Lodge

  Mean, Water, Existence

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• I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.

  Kabir

  Reality, Dwelling, Water

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• Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I'm a happy camper!

  George Foreman

  Horse, Sneak In, Moments

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• The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understood that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

  Paul Watson

  Fishing, Would Be, Chance

  "Sea Shepherd: how we sank the Japanese whaling fleet". Interview with Deborah Bassett, www.theecologist.org. April 21, 2011.

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• You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs from the ground.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spring, Book, Sea

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061”, p.400, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Animal, Oxygen, Atmosphere

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• When I'm at home and I'm preparing my own food, it's all gluten-free, or fish and it's healthy, but when I go to someone else's house, I'll eat what they put in front of me because I don't want to be an asshole.

  Bryan Fuller

  Home, House, Healthy

  "'Hannibal' producer Bryan Fuller on cannibal cuisine, renewal and more". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 19, 2013.

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• When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.

  James Wan

  Swimming, Aquariums, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Fishing, Imagination, Brain

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• For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Successful, Sea, Doe

  "The Aims of Education". Book by Alfred North Whitehead, 1929.

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• How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Quality, Advancement, Mud

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Two, Political, Pelicans

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