Gratitude Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Well, first of all,” Langdon said, “Edmond inscribed this piece in clay as an homage to mankind’s earliest written language, cuneiform.” The woman blinked,…

— Dan Brown

“IN the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and…

— Rudyard Kipling

“Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old he is,…

— Ernest Hemingway

Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His tail takes…

— Michael Drayton

“By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits…

— Herman Melville

“Samson had a knack for this kind of insight: he was like a grinning fisherman who could wrench a secret from the depths of…

— Karen Russell i Vampires in the Lemon Grove i

“the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water”

— Virginia Woolf

“Like the prophet Jonas, whom God ordered to go to Nineveh, I found myself with an almost uncontrollable desire to go in the opposite…

— Thomas Merton

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down;…

— Herman Melville

“He bowed at the dark, straightened, tossed his hat over his shoulder, and, carrying the muleta in his left hand and the sword in…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The White Prophet's premise seems simple. He wished to set the world in a different path than the one it had rolled on through…

— Robin Hobb

“It was then I truly realised the whale is no more a fish than I am. So much blood. This was not like the…

— Carol Birch