Lakes Quotes - Page 22

• I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

  Anthony Doerr

  Thinking, Sea, Fishing

  Penguin Group Interview, www.encyclopedia.com. 2006.

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• We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid "futurology" available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at "the future of the human race"; we have the same pressing need that we have always had - to love, care for, and teach our children.

  Wendell Berry

  Children, Ocean, Race

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.188, Counterpoint Press

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• No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original.

  Herbert Hoover

  Purple, Mountain, Gorges

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• Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

  George Sand

  Stars, Clouds, Volcanoes

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (2015). “The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert: Collected Letters of the Most Influential French Authors”, p.218, e-artnow

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• Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

  Jimmy Carter

  Memorable, Sea, Fishing

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.35, University of Arkansas Press

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• So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.

  Rex Hunt

  Air, Sea, Fishing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

  Stephen Leacock

  Sea, Fishing, Names

  Stephen Leacock (2010). “My Remarkable Uncle”, p.93, New Canadian Library

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• I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

  Perry Como

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look.

  Rolf Jacobsen

  Book, Moon, Night

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• When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Reflection, Perfect, Meditation

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• As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Self, Water, Mind

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• ...But some of the ideas are ridiculous. Such as matching the hatch. Of course there are times when you have a fly as alike as possible to the flies on the water. But casting and accuracy and how you present your fly and how fast it gets there and how fast it swims are all more important than matching the hatch.

  Charles Ritz

  Sea, Fishing, Ideas

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• Later as the day cools and they have gone in, the cry of the corncrake will carry across those same fields and over the lake to the blue-hazed mountain, such a lonely evening sound to it, like the lonely evening sound of the mothers, saying it is not our fault that we weep so, it is nature's fault that makes us first full, then empty.

  Edna O'Brien

  Beautiful, Mother, Lonely

  Edna O'Brien (2007). “The Light of Evening”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

  Izaak Walton

  Artist, Men, Sea

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'

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• Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

  Washington Irving

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Washington Irving (1829). “The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...”

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• As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

  George Orwell

  War, Thinking, Sea

  George Orwell (1969). “Coming Up for Air”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

  Ovid

  Art, Boys, Sea

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• It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.

  Thomas Young

  Animal, Sea, Fishing

  Thomas Young (1798). “An Essay on Humanity to Animals”, p.90

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• In the name of sense, man, if God made fish to be eaten, what difference does it make if I enjoy the killing of them before I eat them? You would have none but a fisherman by trade do it, and then you would have him utter a sigh, a prayer, and a pious ejaculation at each cod or haddock that he killed.

  William Cowper Prime

  Prayer, Men, Differences

  William Cowper Prime (1876). “I Go A-fishing”, p.266

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• Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

  Harold Russell

  Thoughtful, Sea, Fishing

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• To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

  Harold Russell

  Boys, Sea, Fishing

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• It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

  Michael Faraday

  Weed, Sea, Fishing

  Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.3, Cambridge University Press

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• And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.

  Ihara Saikaku

  Taken, Night, Hands

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• I like speed, so I like taking the jet skis out and hitting the water, or hitting the lake. In the winter, unfortunately, I used to ski a lot but I haven't been able to ski in the past few years because thank God I've been working, so that's a good reason not to.

  Laz Alonso

  Winter, Past, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Grateful, Vacation, Way

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