Best Whales Sayings
206 Whales quotes by 166 unique authors
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The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.
— Romare Bearden
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It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they…
— Wavy Gravy
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Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between…
— Rick Danko
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Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it's worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far, far more jobs…
— Paul Watson
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This isn't a hunt that's going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of…
— Paul Watson
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I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.
— Paul Watson
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We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for…
— Paul Watson
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While it might surprise many ecologists to hear, capitalism is itself the ultimate form of conservationism. Capitalists seek to conserve resources, not because of sentimental…
— Unknown Author
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I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but…
— Jack Handey
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Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.
— Maddox
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My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.
— Rex Hunt
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I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.
— Paul Fussell
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When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit moody at them…
— Burial
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Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount…
— Mark Twain
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I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his…
— James Joyce
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Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.
— Herman Melville
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They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world.…
— Richard Dean Anderson
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The country's newest aquarium, opened in November, bills itself as the largest in the world, holding more than 100,000 animals representing 500 species. It is…
— John Grant
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Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem…
— Nelson Mandela
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Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Seeing the whales off James Price Point, mothers, babies, bull whales, seeing the count, going up into the thousands of these whales, the assurance that…
— Bob Brown
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The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.
— Gregory Colbert
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Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with…
— Gregory Colbert
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Save the gerund and screw the whale.
— Tom Stoppard
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