Fishing Quote by Herbert Hoover

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

— Thomas McGuane

Fishing has been part of our culture since we landed here.

— Rex Hunt

I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

— Arnold Gingrich

Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames…

— Herbert Hoover

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

— Herbert Hoover

There is something basic about fishing that goes back to man's very beginnings.

— Robert Fuller

To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of…

— Herbert Hoover

There's more to fishing than catching fish. It's being lost in a timeless world, away from all the chaos outside, doing something that's elemental.

— Paul Whitehouse

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers,…

— Paul Schullery

Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing…

— Bob Gibson

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

— Thomas McGuane

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

— Harold Russell