Lakes Quotes - Page 5

• I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly when the concern for the environment appears far more intense than the concern for the human family.

  Robert Sirico

  Rain, Animal, Rivers

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• Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

  Seth Godin

  Blow, Years, Wind

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• A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink.

  William Kittredge

  Men, Blow, Sea

  William Kittredge (2007). “The Next Rodeo: New and Selected Essays”, Graywolf Press

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• Datin'is a lot like fishin'. Sometimes catch and release is the best method.

  Granger Smith

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• A star is born in the teeth of the Lake Michigan wind.

  Brent Musburger

  Stars, Wind, Teeth

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• Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  World, Forests, Glamorous

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.154, e-artnow

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• Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Taken, Clouds

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After Dark”, p.152, Random House

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• I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we'd watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters - they were the biggest things I've ever seen!

  Kyle Chandler

  Brother, Dad, College

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

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• I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.

  William Gilbert

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

  Thomas McGuane

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity, that he has obtained the name 'Salmo Ferox'. I pull about this unnatural monster till he is tired, land him, and administer the coup de grace. Is this cruel? Cruelty should be made of sterner stuff.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Tired, Rivers, Sea

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• For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .

  Arthur Ransome

  Honesty, Book, Men

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• Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

  Arthur Ransome

  Talking, Sea, Fishing

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• Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Sea, Fishing

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 5, l. 10

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• The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

  William Shakespeare

  Cutting, Sea, Fishing

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.127

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• 'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.

  William Shakespeare

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.55, Palgrave Macmillan

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• It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.

  Jim Harrison

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Jim Harrison (2007). “True North”, p.157, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• How can you need so many rods and reels to catch a fish? , she asked, her lips pulled into that weaned on a gherkin look, as she watched me prepare for a fishing trip. Probably for much the same reason that you seem to need 30 pairs of shoes for one pair of feet, I nearly said, but decided to live for another day.

  Tony Bishop

  Sea, Fishing, Shoes

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• Who hears the fishes when they cry?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.44

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• What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Sea, Fishing

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1831). “The Dramatic Works”, p.15

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• Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

  Alexander Pope

  Yellow, Race, Sea

  Alexander Pope (2008). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

  Cotton Mather

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Cutting, Sea, Fishing

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