Fish Quotes - page 3

Since the white man says he came from the evolution of animals, well, maybe the black man didn't. The white man has made so many errors in the handling of people that maybe he did come from a gorilla or a fish and crawl up on the sand and then into the trees. Of course, evolution doesn't take God into consideration. I don't think people learned to do all the things they do through evolution. (Charles Mingus)

I am pretty health-conscious, so when my girlfriend and/or I make dinner--no, I don't have a cook!--we choose the healthier options: lean meats, steamed veggies, fish, etc. Of course, there are always those cravings for the "bad foods" that I do give in to once in a while!

Tiger Woods

There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!

Frank Zappa

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Maimonides

Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.

Ralph Steadman

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

Zane Grey

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and a smelly fish.

José Rizal

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

Jack Kerouac

Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots.

Robert Jordan

Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

Robert Jordan

When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there. (Robert Jordan)

No one supposed that dinoflagellates might actively kill fish as an evolved response for their own specific advantage, including a potential nutritional benefit for the algal cells. And yet the dinoflagellates do seem to be killing and eating fishes in a manner suggesting active evolution for this most peculiar reversal.

Stephen Jay Gould

Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

Ramakrishna

I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.

Gloria Estefan

I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless)."

Erik Satie

People say 'go with the flow' but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish.

Roy Keane

And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.

Rufus Wainwright

I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.

Paul Watson

Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury.

Elvis Costello

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a man a sub-prime fish loan and you're in business, buddy.

Stephen Colbert

For the same reason that no one can help the fish to find the ocean. (Anthony de Mello)

When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.

P. L. Travers

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.

Ernest Hemingway

There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.

Ernest Hemingway

Fish,” he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

Ernest Hemingway

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