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Quotes About Fisherman

I'm a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.
~ Dwayne Johnson
I'm a bit of a dynamite fisherman when it comes to cooking as I don't have the patience, but I am a huge foodie.
~ Alexander Gilkes
Clear waters drift through the immensity of a tall forest. In front of me a huge river mouth receives the long wind. Deep ripples hold white sand and white fish swimming as in a void. I sprawl on a big rock, billows nourishing my humble body. I gargle with water and wash my feet. A fisherman pauses out on the surf. So many fish long for bait. I look only to the east with its lotus leaves.
~ Wang Wei
Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket on his boat. The fish were not yet dead, so the man decided to ease their suffering by killing them swiftly. While he worked, the cold air made his eyes water. One of the wounded fish saw this and said to the other: "What a kind heart this fisherman has- see how he cries for us." The other fish replied: "Ignore his tears and watch what he is doing with his hands.
~ Randa Abdel-Fattah
A lone fisherman up early looking for sea trout found the first body.
~ Kate Atkinson
I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Ting. Tingle, tingle, tremble toes, She's a good fisherman, catches hens, puts 'em inna pens Wire blier, limber lock, three geese inna flock One flew east, one flew west One flew over the cuckoo's nest O-U-T- spells out… goose swoops down and plucks you out.
~ Ken Kesey
Tingle, ting-le, tang-le toes, she's a good fisherman, catches hens, puts 'em inna pens…wire blier, limber lock, three geese inna flock…one flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest…O-U-T spells out…goose swoops down and plucks you out.
~ Ken Kesey
...of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy.
~ William Sherwood Fox
the fisherman's daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.
~ Yannis Ritsos
Manifestation is an act of trust. It is the soul pouring itself out into its world, like a fisherman casting a net to gather in the fish he seeks; with each cast properly made, we will bring what we need to us, but first we must hurl ourselves into the depths without knowing just what lies beneath us.
~ David Spangler
The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.'
~ Robert Greenwald
The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or 'feeling-thinking' to define language that speaks the truth. Eduardo Galeano
~ Rob Brezsny
Similarly, in Britain, the future bride of a fisherman began knitting this special sweater as soon as she was engaged—and not a moment before.
~ Debbie Stoller
Le poisson ne vous dira pas que le pêcheur pêche, mais vous dira qu'il est en train de tuer
~ AMYNE E. QASEM
I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.
~ Alice Waters
Life drifting, in its continuous, unpredictable flow. Life inimitable. Japanese Buddhism teaches us that art (or bliss) is surprise, it cannot be calculated. It is a prey, a catch: "Be as ignorant of what you are going to catch as a fisherman of what is at the end of his fishing rod" (the fish that arises from nowhere).
~ Robert Bresson
You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?
~ Ernest Hemingway
He was eighteen feet from nose to tail, the fisherman who was measuring him called.
~ Ernest Hemingway
They're coming back!" she yelled. Marcia jumped, lost the Projection completely and, far away at the Port, and her crew disappeared forever, much to the shock of a lone fisherman on the harbor wall.
~ Angie Sage
Sometimes Stuart seems like an irritable fisherman. He bobs about, on the disruption of his life, a small, unsteady figure, fishing for order. Then he gets into a rage, 'goes right on one', and it is as if he's taken out the gutting knife and mashed his catch to a pulp - every sign of hated, repressive, reminding order is gone again.
~ Alexander Masters
Sem conseguir resolver para onde olhar durante todo esse tempo, Dafé se admirou de haver tanta ciência naquela gente comum, se admirou também de nunca ter visto nos livros que pessoas como essas pudessem possuir conhecimentos e habilidades tão bonitos, achou até mesmo a mãe uma desconhecida, misteriosa e distante, em seu saber antes nunca testemunhado. Quantos estudos não haveria ali, como ficavam todos bonitos fazendo ali suas tarefas, agora também ela ia ser pescadora!
~ João Ubaldo Ribeiro
When a horse is feeling good, you can sense that, a lot like the tension a fisherman feels on his line when he hooks something.
~ Bob Baffert
Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.
~ Steve Goodman