Whales Quotes

My clients are the whales and the seals.

— Paul Watson

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

— Bill Vaughan

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

— Oliver Goldsmith

All of the great whales are endangered.

— Paul Watson

“All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.”

— Roger Ebert

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

— Edmund Burke

How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean.

— Denis Leary

We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.

— Joseph Campbell

“Whales are like elephants of the sea. They have family structures, mannerisms, and habits that are similar to our own.”

— Terri Irwin

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

— Tori Amos

I had whale tartare when I was in Japan, but I probably wouldn't have it again.

— Sasha Cohen

How did the dolphins and whales get such big brains? They obviously don't need such big brains to catch fish.

— Owsley Stanley

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

— George Gaylord Simpson

The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

— Warren Farrell

The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of…

— Benjamin Franklin

I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

— Paul Fussell

The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it…

— Natalie Babbitt

Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in…

— Anonymous

New England waters are some of my favorite - they are some of the richest waters because they are temperate waters and…

— Brian Skerry

We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing…

— Gerald Durrell

I attempt to surf. I'm not as good as anyone else in the water. I'm more like a beached whale. I just…

— Olesya Rulin

The fact is, that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there…

— Herman Melville

Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed.…

— William Shakespeare

“Whales are silly once every two years. The young are called short-heads or baby blimps. Many whale romances begin in Baffin's bay…

— Will Cuppy

Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express…

— Gregory Colbert

I had one job that was kind of cop-like. One summer I did security at a miniature golf course. Just standing out…

— Dane Cook

In 'Deadliest Catch,' we have men in ships in rough seas catching crabs. With 'Whale Wars,' we have men and women from…

— Paul Watson

A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and…

— Upton Sinclair

And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever…

— Herman Melville

Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and…

— Dylan Thomas

Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order…

— Paul Auster

Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the…

— Tim Cahill

“Apropos of Eskimo, I once heard a missionary describe the extraordinary difficulty he had found in translating the Bible into Eskimo. It…

— Frederick Hamilton

“though the only spout in sight was that of a Fin-Back, belonging to the species of uncapturable whales, because of its incredible…

— Herman Melville

“But you can't just leave it at that!" said Anathema, pushing forward. "Think of all things you could do! Good things." "Like…

— Terry Pratchett

“In the past the whales had been able to sing to each other across whole oceans, even from one ocean to another…

— Douglas Adams

I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E.…

— James Lovelock

I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of…

— Rita Mae Brown

“In life, the visible surface of the Sperm Whale is not the least among the many marvels he presents. Almost invariably it…

— Herman Melville

“Whales have been evolving for thirty million years. To our one million. A sperm whale’s brain is seven times the size of…

— Cormac McCarthy