Salmon Quotes

• My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Life Is, Currents, Feels

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• Grilled salmon and brown pasta works for me every time.

  Steven Gerrard

  Pasta, Brown

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day.

  Sam Ewing

  Mother, Thinking, Eggs

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• I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

  Neil Armstrong

  Thinking, Moon, Swim

  Neil Armstrong's remarks at the Apollo mission press conference (1969), as quoted in Norman Mailer "Of a Fire on the Moon", 1970, and in "First Man: The Life of Ronnie Petch the bender" by James R. Hansen, 2005.

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• I'd like a nice piece of salmon that's not too pink inside and yet isn't too dry or crisp either.

  Bob Saget

  Nice, Pieces, Dry

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a salmon fillet, but I do love a massage.

  Jason Bateman

  Needs, Herbs, Massage

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• Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love Is, Sea, Land

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.44, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry.

  Brenda Peterson

  Sorry, Ocean, Sea

  Brenda Peterson (2000). “Singing to the Sound: Visions of Nature, Animals & Spirit”, Newsage Press

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• The ancient Irish bards knew the Salmon of Knowledge as the giver of all life's wisdom. In the salmon's leap of understanding like a leap of faith, we can see ourselves "in our element," immersed in the river of life. The cycle of the salmon's journey reminds us that all rivers flow to the same sea.

  Lynn Culbreath Noel

  Journey, Sea, Rivers

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• "It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

  Charles Dickens

  Wine, Voice, Broken

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.63

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• I have seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh is falling away from their spines, I have seen salmon fighting to protect their nests. I have seen them push up creeks so small that they rammed themselves across the gravel. I have seen them swim upstream with huge chunks bitten out of their bodies by bears. Salmon are incredibly driven to spawn. They will not give up. This gives me hope.

  Kathleen Moore

  Giving Up, Fall, Eye

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• If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.

  John Kitzhaber

  Rivers, Healthy, Environmental

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• I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Valentines Day, Rivers

  Another Time (1940) "As I Walked Out One Evening"

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• You piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants.

  Eddie Izzard

  Money, Restaurants, Expensive

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• Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

  David Nicholls

  Years, Swim, Urges

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• If you don't believe your salmon is wild, ask it to fetch your newspaper and see what happens.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, Fetch, Newspapers

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• The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me. The strength of the fire, the taste of the salmon, the trail of the sun, and the life that never goes away, they speak to me. And my heart soars.

  Chief Dan George

  Morning, Nature, Stars

  Chief Dan George, “My Heart Soars”

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• There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

  Anthony Trollope

  Night, Achievement, Done

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Marion Fay”, p.319, Anthony Trollope

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• You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

  Loretta Lynn

  Swimming, Hungry, Spawn

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.43, Vintage

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• Two young salmon are swimming along one day. As they do, they are passed by a wiser, older fish coming the other way. The wiser fish greets the two as he passes, saying, "Morning boys, how's the water?" The other two continue to swim in silence for a little while, until the first one turns to the other and asks, "What the hell is water?"

  David Foster Wallace

  Morning, Swimming, Boys

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• There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit.

  Dale Rex Coman

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• When you come from your heart in the midst of your self and in your life, you’ll be like a salmon turning and going upstream. You’ll be going against the stream. You’ll be going against what your self is like. In that way, you are training your self, your conditioning and the streams of your self.

  John de Ruiter

  Heart, Self, Training

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• I'm talkin' about a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talkin' about Aspen.

  Jim Carrey

  Wine, Beer, Flow

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• A female salmon lays three thousand eggs a year - and has yet to receive a Mother's Day card from one of them.

  Joan Rivers

  Mother, Years, Eggs

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• He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon

  Alice Sebold

  Kissing, Stories, Might

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