Fishing Quotes - Page 12

• It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry

  Bill Drayton

  Leadership, People, Giving

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• The ocean is not just blank blue space but rather the habitat for amazing wildlife, and we have to take care how we use it. If we want to keep having the goods and services it provides, we have to treat it more carefully in terms of fishing and dumping.

  Carl Safina

  Ocean, Science, Blue

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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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• God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Sea, Depth, Sin

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• I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Government, Hands, Order

  "The Authority Principle" in Daniel Guerin "No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism" (p. 90), 1980.

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• Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Courage, Government, Hands

  "The Authority Principle" in Daniel Guerin "No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism" (p. 90), 1980.

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• In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

  Ze'ev Chafets

  Political, Genius, Fishes

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• An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

  Thomas McGuane

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.98, Vintage

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• Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

  Thomas McGuane

  Teaching, Sea, Rivers

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.15, Vintage

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• Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

  Jim Harrison

  Horror, Hostage, Making A Living

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• Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.

  Mel Brooks

  Friday, Monday, Sunday

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• Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Food, Lakes, Sea

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• If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.

  Dizzy Dean

  Team, July, World

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• Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Life, Rivers, Lakes

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Whether it was hunting, fishing, or playing sports, my children were going to grow up outside. They weren't going to be sitting on the couch inside. At least they didn't grow up to be nerds.

  Phil Robertson

  Sports, Children, Growing Up

  Phil Robertson (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Hunters, Firsts

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• We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays and we hate him!

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Hate, Gay, Cowboy

  "Alec Baldwin Calls Hank Williams Jr. a 'Senile, Racist Coot'" by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.

  Brandi Carlile

  Coffee, Needs, Whiskey

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• People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong and confident. If we spent all of our waking moments in that place, then fighting for social justice would be redundant; we would simply have social justice and be done with it, and we could all go swimming, or fishing, or bowling, or dancing, or whatever people do. But it is because we spend so much of our time in that other place, that place of diminished capacity, of flagging energy, or wavering and somewhat flaccid commitment, that we have to be careful.

  Tim Wise

  Strong, Hurt, Commitment

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• In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

  Norman Maclean

  Lines, Our Family, Clear

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.

  Norman Maclean

  Art, Grace, Trout

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Marine, Lakes, Sea

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• A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dream, Dancing, Lines

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• Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Born, Angling

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 1

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• I've got 21 years of experience now fishing professionally, and over that time I've learned a lot about how the bass react. A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.

  Kevin VanDam

  Thinking, Years, People

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