Quotes About Fish

You know why fish are so thin? They eat fish.

Fish, he said, I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.

Take a good rest, small bird, he said. Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

Fish, the old man said. Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

But, thank God, [the fish] are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.

The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

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

What an excellent fish dolphin is to eat cooked, he said. And what a miserable fish raw. I will never go in a boat again without salt or limes.

He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach.

the fish's eye looked as detached as the mirrors in a periscope or as a saint in a procession.

Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. How many people will he feed, he thought. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behaviour and his great dignity.

his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run. If I were him I would put in everything now and go until something broke. But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends." Let

hope no fish will come along so great that he will prove us wrong.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

Quisiera ser el pez - pensó - con todo lo que tiene frente a mi voluntad y mi inteligencia solamente.

virada para cima. A ponta farpeada do arpão projetava-se em ângulo no dorso do peixe e o mar estava colorido com o sangue vermelho do seu coração. Primeiro a água se tornara muito escura naquele mar tão azul com mais de uma milha

Fish", he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you before the day ends

Don't like fish. They eat drowned sailors – don't seem right to eat them in return.

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

Healthy populations of predatory crabs and fish protect the carbon in salt marshes, as they prevent herbivorous crabs and snails wiping out the plants that hold the marshes together.