Hunting Quotes - Page 6

• But phony, Hemingway was not, and poseur he was not. He did not shoot lions and leopards because he was searching for the answer to life. He shot lions and leopards because he bloody well liked to hunt and shoot, and killing was the best punctuation mark at the end of the intricate and fascinating process of hunting.

  Robert Ruark

  Punctuation Marks, Leopards, Answers

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• Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man's thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance.

  Thom Yorke

  Song, Night, Men

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• The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

  Martha Reeves

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.

  Jean Paul

  Tombstone, Reality, Suffering

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• You can learn more about hunting deer with a bow and arrow in a week than a gun hunter will learn in his entire life

  Fred Bear

  Gun, Arrows, Hunters

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• Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Religious, Land, Pro Life

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• A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many other pleasures of the hunt.

  Fred Bear

  Animal, Pleasure, Hunts

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• Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.

  Fred Bear

  Archery, Mind, Shooting

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• Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.

  John Paul Stevens

  Retirement, Home, Vacation

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• I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

  Gary Cherone

  Music, Song, Queens

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• Networking is not about hunting. It is about farming. It's about cultivating relationships. Don't engage in 'premature solicitation'. You'll be a better networker if you remember that.

  Ivan Misner

  Networking, Social Media, Remember

  Ivan Misner, Hazel Walker, Frank De Raffelle Jr (2012). “Business Networking and Sex: Not What You Think”, p.108, Entrepreneur Press

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• In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

  Joe Sabia

  Wall, Motivation, Inspiration

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• You don't have to be a rocket science to know that if Joe Teti has a rifle, and a round to go with it. I'm going hunting.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Rifles, Rockets

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• I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery.

  William Langewiesche

  Airplane, Simple, Clouds

  William Langewiesche (1998). “Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight”, Pantheon

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• Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.

  Laozi

  Racing, Mind, Taoism

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• Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

  William Golding

  Law, Rescue, Piggy

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.255, Penguin

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• The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are.

  Jase Robertson

  Archery, Ducks, Duck Hunting

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• Rich, 'the Old Man said dreamily, 'is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got.

  Robert Ruark

  Gun, Men, Roof Over Your Head

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• In this quiet, peaceful time of twilight there is, in this great circle of life, an awful lot of hunting and fishing and catching and killing and dying and eating going on all around me. As the old fisherman said, 'That's the way with life. Sometimes you eat well; sometimes you are well-eaten.'

  Paul G. Quinnett

  Twilight, Fishing, Circles

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• Come warm weather, I'm going to take a kid fishing; I hope you do to. But nothing would make me happier than to look across the cove or down the stream and see a young one help an old one remember what it is like to be young in Springtime.

  Gene Hill

  Kids, Fishing, Weather

  Gene Hill (1985). “A Listening Walk --and Other Stories”, p.109, Academic Learning Company LLC

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• Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

  William Cowper

  Sports, Pain, Pleasure

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 3 'The Garden' l. 326 (on hunting)

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• When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate only where they became fossilized.

  Richard Leakey

  Fossils, Forget, Easy

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• A spider is proud when it has caught a fly; one man when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears, and another when he has taken Sarmatians. Are not these robbers, if you examine their opinions?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Taken, Men, Bears

  "Meditations".

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• A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!

  Marie Corelli

  Morning, Bird, Swim

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• Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fishing, Healthy, Mouths

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.438, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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