Fisherman Quotes · Page 5

Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

“Scientists are sometimes wrong and fisherman are sometimes wrong.”

— Mark Kurlansky

Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

— Theocritus

To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

— Harold Russell

You need a good gardener and a good fisherman. The cook is not required.

— Alain Ducasse

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

— Paul Prudhomme

I am a woman. I am a fisherman. As I have said, I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl.

— Linda Greenlaw

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by…

— Dalai Lama

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with…

— Paul Schullery

Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman…

— Charles Kingsley

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.

— Hermann Hesse

My father used to be a fisherman, so it always makes me feel close to him when I am there on the…

— Irina Shayk

I'm a big outdoorsman... I'm a big hunter. Avid fisherman. Hiker. Climber. Scuba diver. Skier. Love the outdoors.

— Bruce Rauner

“You all know we are only passing by. We only walk over these stones a few times, our boats float a little…

— Annie Proulx

Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's…

— William Finnegan

I was a hunter and fisherman, and many a time I have slipped out into the woods and prairies at 4 a.m.…

— Jay Cooke

You know, I met a wise man centuries ago in China who said to me, ‘He who lets fear rule him, has…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

This is what life does. It lets you walk up to the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a stiff…

— Eleanor Lerman

Along a stream that raced and ran Through tangled trees and over stones, That long had heard the pipes o' Pan And…

— Edgar Guest

I had a series of jobs in the small fishing village in West Wales where my family lived when I was a…

— Johnny Flynn

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the…

— Mario Batali

Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and…

— John D. Voelker

Before becoming master fisherman, must be master baiter.

— Nikhil Saluja

I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about.

— John D. Voelker

Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further.

— Lefty Kreh

The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.

— Juvenal

I'm a fisherman, so I like places like the River Test in Hampshire, which is wonderfully peaceful.

— Bernard Cribbins

“the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water”

— Virginia Woolf

“Between the fisherman and the fish, we are on the side of the fish for matters of justice!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

— Ted Williams

There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

— Ernest Hemingway

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Fishing is in my Irish blood and a good fisherman always has a line.” He”

— Jennifer Saints

They say they're plenty of fish in the sea, but then again I'm a pretty bad fisherman.

— Anonymous

As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to…

— Paul Schullery

“the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water so that it may grow fatter and be one…

— Virginia Woolf

I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. What I…

— Jon Krakauer

If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated…

— Jack Ohman