Fisherman Quotes

My grandad was a fisherman and my dad was a fisherman.

— Gylfi Sigurdsson

Good things come to those who hustle

— Chuck Noll

I'm just tryna make it real like a fisherman.

— Lupe Fiasco

All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.

— Herb Shriner

There is no such thing as too much snow.

— Doug Coombs

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

— Ernest Hemingway

“A fisherman always sees another fisherman from afar”

— Gordon Gekko

Just for the record: get wetter than a fisherman.

— Nicki Minaj

“I am a fisherman, a hunter, and a lover. A lover of men, not animals. And by men I mean women.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Look at the lonely fisherman,' my father says. 'Look at his view,' my mother says.”

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

— Washington Irving

I'm a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.

— Dwayne Johnson

Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts.

— Charles W. Waterman

“I’m thinking about becoming a farmer and a fisherman—a hunter of swimming plants.”

— Jarod Kintz

Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.

— Steve Goodman

Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. I've got no place to retire to.

— Julius Boros

The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the…

— Charles Ritz

When you're on a boat, 15 nautical miles off the coast and you're with a bunch of fishermen, they don't give two…

— Tanc Sade

Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .

— Ed Zern

Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end,…

— Ed Zern

Jesus called fishermen, not graduates of rabbinical schools. The main requirement was to be natural and sincere.

— Jim Cymbala

Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what…

— John Gierach

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching…

— John D. Voelker

Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

There's always going to be the cooler-clubbers who are going to harvest a lot of fish, but I think the hard-core bass…

— Philip K. Chapman

I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was…

— Alice Waters

Da was a real fisherman. But it wasn't the catch that mattered, it was the skill of the cast, the preparation of…

— Terry Wogan

I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the…

— Emeril Lagasse

Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a…

— Vance Bourjaily

“Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild…

— Jodi Picoult

Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a…

— Rosemary Mahoney

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The Drunken Fisherman" Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish that pleased my eye (Truly Jehovah's bow suspends No pots…

— Robert Lowell

This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the…

— Robin Hobb

Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In the brief…

— Neal A. Maxwell

And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now…

— John F. Kennedy

The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees…

— John Burroughs

“...anyone who chooses to make fishing his occupation solely for the money is in the wrong business. If no thrill is experienced…

— Linda Greenlaw

“This is the story of a boy named Pete Coutinho, who had a spell put on him. Some people might have called…

— Henry Kuttner

Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world ... I've always seen the world by running, and that has allowed me…

— Grete Waitz