Quote by Mike Wallace

“go on a whaling voyage; this”

— Herman Melville

“As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at this same New Bedford, thence to embark on their voyage, it…

— 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

“And let me in this place movingly admonish you, ye ship-owners of Nantucket! Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with lean…

— Herman Melville

“And Pencroft returned to his work, not without uttering a sigh of regret, for every sailor is a born fisherman, and if the pleasure…

— Jules Verne

“Jonah being delivered from the whale.”

— Paul Doherty

“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

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

— Bill Condon

“The captain drummed his fingers on the console. He was afraid that he might soon be conducting his own research project to find out…

— Terry Pratchett

“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