Lakes Quotes - Page 16

• The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith.

  John Gierach

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  John Gierach (2013). “Trout Bum”, p.13, Graphic Arts Books

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• The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation.

  Rex Hunt

  Beautiful, Kids, Sea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you're a fish and you want to be a fish-stick, you have to have very good posture.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Sea

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• Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis on midge materials as well as enough fur and feathers to whip out a half dozen of virtually every conceivable dry pattern nature can throw at me. I have used it once, in 1993.

  Jack Ohman

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know how to clean and fry a fish.

  John Gierach

  Thinking, Sea, Fishing

  John Gierach (2012). “No Shortage of Good Days”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side.

  John Gierach

  Rivers, Sea, Fishing

  John Gierach (2011). “No Shortage of Good Days”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water

  Thomas McGuane

  Running, Fun, Mean

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.6, Vintage

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• Reading the features you would get the impression that this year's crop of rods will allow you to cast from here to eternity, with a rod so light you need to tie it to your wrist to stop it blowing away.

  Tony Bishop

  Reading, Light, Years

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• If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by moose, will rarely enter your thoughts, much less stimulate your spirit. It's different if you fish. The surface of the water tells a story.

  Paul Schullery

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Paul Schullery (2008). “Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir”, p.21, UNM Press

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• If you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water's surface so startling and violent and exhilarating that you too will suddenly, and always thereafter, believe in monsters.

  Paul Schullery

  Believe, Sea, Fishing

  Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You cannot lose what you never had.

  Izaak Walton

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Sea, Fishing

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.627, Delphi Classics

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• The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as mermaids, and arise cranky and haggard from their fantasies. They are moody and neglectful and all of them a little daft. Moreover they are inclined to drink too much.

  John D. Voelker

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• ... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.

  Ed Zern

  Spiritual, Men, Years

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• By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

  Martha Ostenso

  Morning, Rain, Weaving

  Martha Ostenso (1937). “The Stone Field”, New York, Dodd

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• Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture.

  Elias Hasket Derby

  Ocean, Men, Agriculture

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• My garden is a forest ledge
  Which older forest s bound;
  The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge,
  Then plunge to depths profound!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Garden, Blue, Profound

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.231, Delphi Classics

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• I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

  Bryan Batt

  Growing Up, New Orleans, Grew Up

  "'Mad Men's' Bryan Batt takes your questions". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Swans, Dancer, Ballet

  "Black Swan Choreographer Benjamin Millepied on Teaching Natalie Portman to Have Swan Arms" by Rebecca Milzoff, www.vulture.com. December 3, 2010.

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• At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Storm

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.

  Ellen Barkin

  Swans, Hands, Shoes

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• I had seen the ballet of Swan Lake as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Children, Swans, Years

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• Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring's flowersto her mother's house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Girl, Mother, Daughter

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• Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.

  Jeff Merkley

  Cancer, Rain, Heart

  "A Dangerous Proposal" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.

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