First sight Quote by Herman Melville

“I pictured the mother whale, exhausted from labor, pushing her calf up to the skin of the water. The miracle of breath in the…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“oohing and aahing over the Old Whaling Church and”

— Elin Hilderbrand

“The life of a whale is short on land.”

— Nicolas Massimi

“If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Jonah being delivered from the whale.”

— Paul Doherty

“What if you don't have to be alone in your whale? Like what if that's the point? To find the right person to sit…

— Todd Hasak-Lowy

“...the wires he wore had grown all through him, as the roots of trees replace the flesh of corpses; and the vast coils of…

— Raphael Carter

“fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. And that harpoon—so like a corkscrew now—was flung”

— Herman Melville

“Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can’t MANHANDLE THEM!”

— Erica Sehyun Song

“Killer whales were named as such because they sometimes preyed on large whales and sharks”

— Adam Anderson

“An eccentric Connecticut whaling captain named Preserved Fish and his cousin-partner Joseph Grinnell shifted from hawking New Bedford whale oil to running the Swallowtail…

— Mike Wallace

“Whales are like elephants of the sea. They have family structures, mannerisms, and habits that are similar to our own.”

— Terri Irwin