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206 Whales quotes by 166 unique authors
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If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales…
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
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I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people kill whales. My stuffed whale was like most…
— Skylar Grey
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The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the…
— Northrop Frye
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Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep and then pushing it away.…
— Amy Poehler
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Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes-…
— John Muir
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Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity,…
— Rachel Carson
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The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the…
— William Blake
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My favorite wild animal is a narwhal - the unicorn of the sea. It's a whale with a tooth that sticks out of its head…
— Kesha
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Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But…
— Jay Griffiths
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I had whale tartare when I was in Japan, but I probably wouldn't have it again.
— Sasha Cohen
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Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few…
— Sylvia Earle
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By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures…
— Sylvia Earle
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the…
— Rachel Hunter
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How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean.
— Denis Leary
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
— Paul McCartney
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He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and…
— Herman Melville
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
— Herman Melville
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I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV…
— Karl Pilkington
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God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a…
— Adam Sandler
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The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.
— Steven Tyler
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The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
— Bill Vaughan
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Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and…
— Dylan Thomas
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