Whales Quotes

• The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.

  Gregory Colbert

  Song, Answers

  "Ashes and Snow". Documentary, Drama, www.imdb.com. March 05, 2005.

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• We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Children, Ocean, Environmental

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• The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

  Bill Vaughan

  Ants, Fine

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• Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

  Sylvia Earle

  Lakes, Blue, Oysters

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• For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Ocean, Men

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• A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

  Herman Melville

  College, Yale, Ships

  Moby Dick ch. 24 (1851)

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• Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

  Herman Melville

  Dream, Blessing, Shelter

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• If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters.

  Prashant Iyengar

  Deep Water, Ponds, Ifs

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• It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

  Paul McCartney

  Ends, Slaughter, Magnificent

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• Whales have become newly symbolic of real values in a world environment of which man is newly aware. Whales live in families, they play in the moonlight, they talk to one another, and they care for one another in distress. They are awesome and mysterious. In their cold, wet, and forbidding world they are complete and successful. They deserve to be saved, not as potential meatballs, but as a source of encouragement to mankind.

  Victor Blanchard Scheffer

  Encouragement, Real, Successful

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• Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

  Matthew Arnold

  Eye, Sailing, World

  'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 43

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• The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.

  Romare Bearden

  Swimming, Artist, Needs

  Myron Schwartzman, Romare Bearden (1990). “Romare Bearden, his life & art”, Harry N. Abrams

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• Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ocean, Water, Cups

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• And one rose in a tent of sea and gave
  A darkening shudder; water fell away;
  The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.

  Yvor Winters

  Sea, Water, Rose

  Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr

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• Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

  Jane Velez-Mitchell

  Kids, Earth, Stuck

  "Free the killer whale" by Jane Velez-Mitchell, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2010.

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• If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?

  Dave Barry

  God, Swimming, Stupidity

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• Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Home, Wife, Three

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Dec 09, 2011

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• If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Littles, Fishes, Ifs

  Oliver Goldsmith (1862). “Poetical Works”, p.80

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• A whale out of water is over-run by ants.

  Laozi

  Running, Water, Ants

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• Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.

  P. T. Barnum

  Publicity, Minnows

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• All of the great whales are endangered.

  Paul Watson

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• Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.

  Tim Cahill

  Moving, Swimming, Water

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• Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

  Herman Melville

  Flames, Giving, Maelstrom

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.156

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• The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.

  Dave Barry

  Real, Literature, Threat

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• My position is this. If we can't protect sanctuaries, if we can't save the whales, the sharks, the fish, our oceans will die.

  Paul Watson

  Ocean, Sharks, Sanctuary

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