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Whales Quotes by Herman Melville
- Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
- And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real…
- Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.
- The fact is, that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much…
- It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices…
- 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…
- A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
- All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn…
- It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and…
More Whales Quotes
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- I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales. — Mayim Bialik
- I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles. — Nicolas Cage
- I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter. — Tori Amos
- When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling… — Alistair Cooke
- We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too… — Pierce Brosnan
- Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you. — Herman Melville
- If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it. — William Jennings Bryan
- I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,… — Lewis Thomas
- When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for… — Mark Twain
- To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of… — Kelly Osbourne
- Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small… — William Carlos Williams