Hunting And Fishing Quotes

• My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship.

  Louis Bacon

  Appreciation, Brother, Growing Up

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• My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didnt romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.

  Steve Albini

  Dad, Real, Men

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• If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Witty, Retirement

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• 'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.'

  Robert Ruark

  Fun, Memories, Night

  Robert Ruark (2016). “Old Man’s Boy Grows Up”, p.162, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

  Aldo Leopold

  Hunting, Wild Things

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make your a better person.

  Fred Bear

  Hunting, Archery, Soul

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• Go afield with a good attitude, with respect for the wildlife you hunt and for the forest and fields in which you walk. Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make you a better person.

  Fred Bear

  Attitude, Hunting, Soul

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  Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

  John James Audubon

  Not Caring, Hunting, Fishing

  John James Audubon, Christoph Irmscher (1999). “Writings and drawings”

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• In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Animal, Reality

  THEODORE ROOSEVELT (2015). “The Deer Family”, p.81, Loose Cannon

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• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

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• Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Jesus, College, Fishing

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• There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today.

  Ted Nugent

  Hunting, Hands, Fishing

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  Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Sports

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  There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Sports, Sarcastic

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• It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of character....Moreover, it allies us to the pioneer past. In a deep sense, this great land of ours was won for us by hunters.

  Archibald Rutledge

  Sports, Character, Past

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• Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Writing, Hunting

  Ernest Hemingway, Nick Lyons, Jack Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Fishing”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Beautiful, Mom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I only make movies to finance my fishing.

  Lee Marvin

  Fishing, Finance, Angling

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• Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime

  Jimmy Cannon

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Patrick F. McManus (1984). “Never Sniff A Gift Fish”, p.157, Macmillan

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• In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Hunting, Animal

  THEODORE ROOSEVELT (2015). “The Deer Family”, p.81, Loose Cannon

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• If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

  Aristotle

  Hunting, Animal, Hunters

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• Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has adequate defense against a human armed with a gun, a bow and arrow, a trap that can maim, a snare that can strangle, or a fishing lure designed for the sole purpose of fooling fish into thinking they have found something to eat

  Marc Bekoff

  Animal, Gun, Thinking

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• I was interested in the environment from when I was a little kid. I spent most of my time hunting and fishing and kayaking.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Kids, Hunting, Kayaking

  "The Last Mountain". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com. June 3, 2011.

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• I am my father's daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I've been shooting my whole life.

  Amber Heard

  Daughter, Growing Up, Father

  "20Q: Amber Heard". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. August 10, 2011.

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