Quotes and Sayings about Fishing
"Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them."
- John James Audubon
(Related: Music, Fishing, Hunting)
"Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament."
- John Badham
(Related: End, Fishing)
"I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive."
- Joseph Barbera
(Related: Car, Fishing, Hate, Want)
"Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Fish, Fishing)
"One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams."
- Wade Boggs
(Related: Fishing, Now, Right, Today)
"If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church."
- Tom Brokaw
(Related: Religion, Church, Fishing)
"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope."
- John Buchan
(Related: Hope, Charm, Fishing, Pursuit)
"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."
- Jimmy Cannon
(Related: Fishing)
"We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day."
- Perry Como
(Related: Day, Fishing, Ocean)
"It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you."
- Jim Dale
(Related: Feeling, Fishing)
"I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?"
- Nigel Dennis
(Related: Living)
"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
(Related: Time, Connection, Fish, Fishing, Mind, Thinking, Water)
"There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment."
- Tom Felton
(Related: Books, Environment, Fishing, Reading)
"I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing."
- Tom Felton
(Related: Fish, Fishing)
"Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand."
- Malcolm Fraser
(Related: Fishing, Now)
"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
(Related: Time, Fishing, Hell)
"My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them."
- Jeff Goldblum
(Related: Friend, Fish, Fishing)
"You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something."
- Mitch Hedberg
(Related: Fish, Fishing, Want)
"Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl."
- Ernest Hemingway
(Related: Fishing)
"The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years."
- Whitey Herzog
(Related: Winning, Fishing, Years)
"When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Dad, Family, Animals, Being, Camping, Fishing)
"There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing."
- Herbert Hoover
(Related: Americans, Fishing, Prayer, Privacy, Respect)
"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."
- Herbert Hoover
(Related: Fish, Fishing, May, Simplicity)
"I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have."
- Lou Henry Hoover
(Related: Father, Thought, Camping, Fishing, Girls, Hunting, Years)
"Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing."
- Edgar Watson Howe
(Related: Favorite, Fishing)
"Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self."
- Ted Hughes
(Related: Opportunity, Being, Connection, Fishing, Living, Meditation, Self, World)
"All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing."
- Rex Hunt
(Related: Life, End, Fishing, Kids, Talk)
"And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along."
- Rex Hunt
(Related: Day, Fishing, Kids, State)
"From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical."
- Rex Hunt
(Related: Death, People, Fish, Fishing, Old, Teaching)
"I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it."
- Rex Hunt
(Related: Time, Day, Eyes, Fishing, Moments, Thinking, Waking)
"The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Economy, Fishing)
"Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing."
- Harry Johnston
(Related: History, American, Earth, Europe, Fishing, Hunting)
"Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing."
- Ric Keller
(Related: Americans, Camping, Fishing, Hunting)
"I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest."
- DeForest Kelley
(Related: Fishing, Hunting, Rest)
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
- Doug Larson
(Related: Life, People, Fishing)
"It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish."
- Stephen Leacock
(Related: People, Fish, Fishing, Name)
"But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago."
- Joseph C. Lincoln
(Related: Fishing, Majority, Years)
"Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone."
- Mario Lopez
(Related: Day, Fishing, Months)
"Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason."
- Norman MacCaig
(Related: Love, Men, Fish, Fishing, Hesitation, Killing, Reason)
"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
- Norman MacCaig
(Related: Fishing)
"All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed."
- Norman MacCaig
(Related: Poetry, Affection, Books, Fishing, Miscellaneous, Prose)
"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes."
- Don Marquis
(Related: Clothes, Delusion, Fishing, Old)
"I only make movies to finance my fishing'."
- Lee Marvin
(Related: Finance, Movies, Fishing)
"I love talk and I love fishing. I'm having a ball."
- Martin Milner
(Related: Love, Fishing, Talk)
"Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?"
- Walter F. Mondale
(Related: Life, Family, Being, Fishing, Friends, Hunting, Night, Sleep, Want)
"I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion."
- Larry Norman
(Related: Men, Deep, Fishing)
"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
(Related: Friend, First, Fishing, Hunting, State, Washington)
"You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers."
- John H. Reagan
(Related: People, Content, Fishing, Law, Laws, Navigation, Tribute)
"Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature."
- Robert Redford
(Related: Nature, Sports, Life, Baseball, Example, Fishing, Golf, Metaphor)
"The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting."
- Guy Ritchie
(Related: Time, English, Fishing)
"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
(Related: Government, People, Fishing, Forget, Road, Will)
"We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing."
- Junipero Serra
(Related: Fishing, Numbers)
"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
(Related: Money, Fish, Fishing, Want)
"I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?"
- Kiefer Sutherland
(Related: Life, Father, Thought, People, Expression, Fishing)
"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Friend, Fishing, Pleasure, Water)
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Men, Fish, Fishing)
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Time)
"I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing."
- Izaak Walton
(Related: Business)
"Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish."
- Steven Wright
(Related: Fish, Fishing)
"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."
- Steven Wright
(Related: Fishing)