Quote by Colum McCann

“The salmon swims against the current simply because he wants to be like the others.”

— Fulvio Fiori

“Instead, I woke early the next morning, before sunrise, and went out into the world. I walked past my car. I stepped onto the…

— Sherman Alexie

“Salmon swim against my stream of consciousness.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.”

— André Gide

“and there was a fish pond a large one full of the fattest goldfish you ever saw and they were tame. they came to…

— Charles Bukowski

“At their very feet had been the river. The boat came breasting out of the mist, and in they stepped. All new things in…

— Eudora Welty

“I thought of my river, the Afon-Lwydd, that my father had fished in youth, with rod and line for the leaping salmon under the…

— Alexander Cordell

“She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.”

— Elizabeth Wein

“Only dead Salmon swim with the current”

— Ben McNutt - Woodsmoke

“Is getting filthy rich still your goal above all goals, your be-all and end-all, the mist-shrouded high-altitude spawning pond to your inner salmon?”

— Mohsin Hamid

“Then, quick, he flips the fish out onto the bank. It flops and gasps for air, its body slick. We all watch the fish…

— Ally Condie

“Some of the young ladies even ate the salmon without concern to vital humors--when everyone knew colored fish flesh could bring on an attack…

— Gail Carriger