Whaling Quotes

16 quotes by 12 authors

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species. — Dave Barry
Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know… — Laurie Anderson
I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button.… — Bobby Jones
The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week? — Terry Pratchett
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… — Herman Melville
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
Whaling was the oil business of its day. — Nathaniel Philbrick
On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was… — Lewis Gordon Pugh
Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of… — Paul Watson
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics. — Paul Watson
In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to… — Paul Watson
Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking? — Paul Watson
Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and… — Edward M. Lerner
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and its barbaric whaling industry... and we urge the President to… — Hayden Panettiere
Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence, is the modern writer's message. — Melvin Maddocks

Who Wrote These Whaling Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 16 Whaling Quotes as follows: