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Fishing Quotes

Quotes from riverbanks, boats, and quiet water.

These fishing quotes lean on genuine memory: long conversations by the water with an old friend, childhood summers spent at Irish farms, and the pull of salmon runs in Alaska where a log cabin beats a crowded resort. The mood throughout is unhurried rather than competitive.

Great Wass Island Preserve is a 1,579-acre Nature Conservancy jewel, a place of spectacular botanical interest, and Jonesport is situated on a postcard-pretty harbor. Tourism is not serious business in those parts - boat building and fishing are - and...

Quotes by Sue Hubbell

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Steven Wright

I was happy working on my golf and doing a bit of fishing.

Quotes by Steve Clarke

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

Quotes by Stephen Leacock

The dolphin fishing that takes place in Taiji town is an ancient fishing practice deeply rooted in their culture and their practices and supports their livelihoods.

Quotes by Shinzo Abe

Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.

Quotes by Sharon Jones

I grew up in Florida, started fishing with my dad going down to the Everglades and around the state, plus some offshore stuff for sails and wahoo - but I never really got the bug until my husband and I...

Quotes by Shannon Bream

I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.

Quotes by Scotty McCreery

My first computer was an IBM Display Writer. With all its components, it was roughly the size of a bass fishing boat.

Quotes by Sandra Brown

Very early in my culinary career, while helping another cook prepare the staff meal, I stirred some chopped raw garlic and herbs into a bowl of leftover lentils. The atonement for this sin was so extreme that I've never repeated...

Quotes by Samin Nosrat

Fishing keeps you alive, gives you time away - to enjoy God, the creations that He made. Because God made you.

Quotes by Roy Jones Jr.

We know about man's impact on the ocean in terms of fishing and overfishing, but we don't really know much about what's happening underneath the water. And in fact, shipping has a role to play here, because shipping noise has...

Quotes by Rose George

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.

Quotes by Roberta Smith

I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid...

Quotes by Robbie Robertson

I get out in my boat and go fishing inshore and offshore.

Quotes by Rickie Fowler

In the suburban Midwestern Reform Jewish world I was raised in, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, grown men built plastic scale models of Israeli tanks and F-15 jets and displayed them throughout the house, dangling the warplanes from bedroom ceilings...

Quotes by Rick Perlstein

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

Quotes by Ric Keller

All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.

Quotes by Rex Hunt

And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along.

Quotes by Rex Hunt

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

Quotes by Rex Hunt

A few lines make clear that fishing is chosen over sightseeing or lying in the sun, valued instead for solitude and travel. Pair this with the Family quotes page for the trips shared with relatives.