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Fishing Quotes

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn’t be greater.

– Dean Ween

The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as ‘taboo.’ If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

– Paul Watson

New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it’s snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.

– Daniel Boulud

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

– Dave Barry

When things are going well, I can’t write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it’s like fishing.

– Dylan Moran

Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.

– Edmonia Lewis

I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don’t hunt. We’re not gun folk.

– Nick Offerman

I try to make sure to get off the bus as much as I can, try to do something during the day that’s local to where I am, whether it’s hiking or fishing.

– Dierks Bentley

I would love to do something like ‘Fishing With John.’

– Parker Posey

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

– DeForest Kelley

My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening – corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.

– Emanuel Steward

What people don’t understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no other country in the world where the ordinary citizen can go out and enjoy hunting and fishing. There’s no other nation in the world where that happens. And it’s very much a part of our heritage.

– Norman Schwarzkopf

People ask me, ‘Why are you still writing books?’ Like I’m still only writing to make money and as soon as I have enough I’ll quit and go fishing? I like to write books. It’s the most satisfying thing I do.

– Elmore Leonard

Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China’s first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven million people appeared, seemingly out of nowhere; factories sprang up, often housed in hastily constructed tower blocks.

– Michael Specter

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I’m writing.

– Max Hastings

The fun of fishing is catching ’em, not killing ’em.

– Norman Schwarzkopf

What I miss most about living in Alaska is the fishing.

– Darby Stanchfield

Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.

– Donald Trump, Jr.

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

– E. W. Howe

One of the cries from the people was, don’t forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government.

– Connie Sellecca

Hell, if I’d jumped on all the dames I’m supposed to have jumped on, I’d have had no time to go fishing.

– Clark Gable

If you ask the fish whether they’d rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d vote for another blowout.

– Carl Safina

If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.

– Maurice Strong

NATO isn’t going to be concerned about fishing.

– Paul Watson

There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free themselves from the fishing-industrial complex and its Ponzi scheme, to stop subsidizing the fishing-industrial complex and awarding it fishing rights, when it should in fact pay for the privilege to fish.

– Daniel Pauly

Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It’s a marketing term that really means ‘business as usual.’

– Paul Watson

Fish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back.

– Enric Sala

I can really fish – I’ve been fishing since I was a kid.

– Deion Sanders

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.

– Douglass North

I know that I can sing really loud. It’s like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I’ve been trying to be more dynamic with my voice, and not just singing on 10 all of the time out of terror.

– Neko Case

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