Fishes Quotes - Page 19

• and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin
  she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea
  she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males
  and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Gay, Dark, Blood

  David Herbert Lawrence, “Whales Weep Not!”

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• We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

  Christina Baldwin

  Thinking, Water, Swim

  Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.77, New World Library

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• Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.

  Vince Poscente

  Growing Up, Long, Tanks

  Vince Poscente (2002). “Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery”, Invinceaility Series

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• We know the only fish that goes with the flow is a dead fish.

  Sarah Palin

  Flow, Knows

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• I know I'm a long way from greatness, but I am beginning to come at it in my own way. I can go through the basic motions pretty well, don't rely quite as religiously on specific fly patterns as I once did, have worked out ways of compensating for some of my most egregious weaknesses and have come to count heavily on timing because it's a hell of a lot easier to catch fish when the fish are biting.

  John Gierach

  Greatness, Long, Patterns

  John Gierach (2010). “Standing in a River Waving a Stick”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The president is that invisible force that makes a school of fish suddenly change direction, so that everyone 'ohhs' and 'ahhs' at the glimmering mass and only later wonders what makes them move in that way. I read somewhere-_Harper's_, I'm fairly certain-that the fish are only avoiding pockets of extra cold water.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Moving, School, Water

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• It's nice, when fishing, to catch a fish. But it doesn't really matter if you don't. What you always catch is a quiet time sitting at the water's edge, or in a gently rocking boat, a silent time of water and sky and the movement of natural things.

  Ruth Rudner

  Nice, Fishing, Sky

  Ruth Rudner (1978). “Forgotten pleasures: a guide for the seasonal adventurer”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now. I eat a lot of tofu, and I drink soy shakes with fruit every morning. I always have soybeans, black beans, or chickpeas for lunch or dinner

  Shania Twain

  Morning, Eggs, Lunch

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• The fishhook catches the fish; the truth catches the lie; the death catches the life; the love catches the hate!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Life, Hate

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• We were once fish! We spent millions of years under the water in silence! That's why now we love talking continuously!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Talking, Years

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• If we stand by the eagle, fish will die; if we stand by the fish, eagle will die! This dilemma has been created by the random evolutionary process. There is no goodness, there is no justice and there is no intelligence in here. We are living in a primitive and flawed order.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eagles, Order, Justice

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• Watching fish, like listening to music, can distract you in a good way.

  Marty Becker

  Music, Listening, Way

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• The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.

  William O. Douglas

  Men, Animal, Rivers

  "Sierra Club v. Morton, 405 U.S. 727". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 19, 1972.

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• Another agricultural trend of growing concern is the increased nutrient content of coastal waters resulting from fertilizer runoff in agricultural regions. Augmented by urban sewage discharge in some situations, this results in huge algal blooms, which, as they die and decay, deplete the oxygen content in the water, leading to the death of the fish.

  Lester R. Brown

  Oxygen, Water, Environmental

  Lester R. Brown, Michael Renner (2014). “Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future”, p.25, Routledge

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• Additional federal studies are under way to see if any contamination reaches taps or ground water used for drinking, but the program under which they are conducted, the toxic substances hydrology program of the geological survey, is slated to be eliminated under budget cuts proposed by the Bush administration, government officials said... estrogens and similar compounds are increasingly the focus of research by the Environmental Protection Agency and many scientists because of hints that they alter sexual characteristics in fish and other aquatic species.

  Andrew Revkin

  Drinking, Cutting, Agency

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• To restate an old law - when a man bites a fish, that's good, but when a fish bites a man, that's bad. This is one way of saying it's all right if man kills an animal, but if an animal attacks man, the act is reprehensible.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Animal, Men, Law

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• In life as in water, when we curl up or flail we sink. When we spread and go still, we are carried by the largest sea of all: the sea of grace that flows steadily beneath the turmoil of events. And just as fish can't see the ocean they live in, we can't quite see the spirit that sustains us.

  Mark Nepo

  Ocean, Sea, Water

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.87, Conari Press

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• But really, anybody could die any day, whether you were ready or not. It could be your pet fish or your sister or you. Nothing is the same forever. Maybe all the people on Earth are God's little pet fish. God lives such a long time that people's lives probably seem really short to him. He watches them swim for a little while, and then they stop swimming.

  Suzanne LaFleur

  Swimming, Long, People

  Suzanne LaFleur (2009). “Love, Aubrey”, p.242, Wendy Lamb Books

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• I love cooking all different things, so any form of meat, fish, anything else. I do have a really strict diet, but it's all protein and veg basically. When you are on a diet like that you have to get inventive, so you have to be willing to try any different fish that's out there. Probably a favourite of mine is some baked trout fillets, on a salad.

  Greg Rutherford

  Cooking, Trying, Meat

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• Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  School, People, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.

  Susan Stroman

  Father, Big Fish, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I actually love fish and vegetables. I was raised on vegetables! Anything green - spinach, broccoli, brussels sprouts - I crave.

  Eva Longoria

  Vegetables, Green, Spinach

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If I were an animal, I'd probably be a bald eagle, since I'm already bald and I love to fish. But I'd probably be a shaky-ass eagle because I'm afraid of flying.

  Steve Harvey

  Animal, Eagles, Flying

  Steve Harvey The "Think Like a Man" Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• The most important thing is to get the fish in quickly and leave it in the water. Forget the hero pose.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Hero, Water, Important

  Bonefish on the Brain Interview, bonefishonthebrain.com. May 4, 2010.

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• My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, War, Book

  Source: www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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