Fishes Quotes - Page 26

• Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish.

  Jane Yolen

  Years, Essence, Water

  Jane Yolen (2016). “Sister Light, Sister Dark”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• Fish are not the best authority on water.

  Jane Yolen

  Ignorance, Water, Unawareness

  Jane Yolen (2016). “White Jenna”, p.178, Open Road Media

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• Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth.

  Julian Tuwim

  Men, Water, Lucky

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• caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.

  Barbara Hurd

  Nature, Adventure, Space

  Barbara Hurd (2005). “Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustnt be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Color, Should Have, Personality

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• No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth - everything I need comes from my fish and vegetarian diet, which incorporates many different kinds of fruit and vegetables every week.

  David H. Murdock

  Vegetarian Diet, Vegetables, Pills

  "My Healthy, Weekly Shopping List" by David H. Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

  George Eliot

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.123

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• I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Angel, Dust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures”, p.17

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• I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish.
  [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]

  George Herbert

  Taken

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• In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.

  George Herbert

  Rivers, Bees, Found

  George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

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• My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

  Joanna Lumley

  Mother, Dog, Believe

  "Joanna Lumley: Animals Are Just Like Us". Interview with Dan Mathews, www.peta.org. December 6, 2010.

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• I just learned how to scuba dive. Id been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.

  Cheryl Hines

  Swimming, Air, Oxygen

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• Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks... and being able to eat the fish afterwards.

  Gloria Reuben

  Fishing, Breathing, Air

  "Women Around the World Want a Clean Energy Future" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.

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• What a strange joy it was to talk, to fish gleefully into the past and fling its fragments about us, with the unfailing aroma of pleasantness that pasts always seem to possess!

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Past, Joy, Aroma

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• Do good and throw it in the sea; if God doesn't see it, the fishes will.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Sea, Ifs

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• when one went fishing in information networks, one also became fish food.

  Carol O'Connell

  Fishing, Information, Internet

  Carol O'Connell (1995). “Mallory's Oracle”, p.64, Penguin

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• Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

  Winston Churchill

  Wine, Beef, Maids

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• We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Land, Rivers, Water

  Joseph J. Romm (2010). “Straight Up: America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions”, p.213, Island Press

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• The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.

  Paul Watson

  Sharks, Years, Sea

  "Sea Shepherd: How We Sank the Japanese Whaling Fleet". Interview with Deborah Bassett, www.theecologist.org. April 21, 2011.

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• Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.

  Ray Comfort

  Atheist, Ocean, Water

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Feb 21, 2013

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• I taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!

  Melissa Etheridge

  Swimming, Taught, Pool

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• I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.

  Rick Astley

  Uncles, Dad, Kids

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

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• If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea
  Stay out of my valley and let my mountain be.

  Ma Rainey

  Ocean, Sea, Mountain

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• In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have someone say “Yes” and hand me a chicken leg, or “No” and slap me with an old fish.

  Rob Delaney

  Hands, Wish, Fields

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• The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.

  Kitty Kelley

  Writing, Sleep, Ties

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