Quotes with fishing

  • Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan 
 His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man 
 He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop 
 He said, Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.
  • She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

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  • Don Marquis Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Bud Grant Come September, the middle of September when the first frost comes, that's hunting season. Fishing poles are hung up and the hunting season starts. You've got to be careful, if you're a hunter, that it doesn't become an obsession.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Edgar W. Howe Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Samuel Johnson Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anthony Doerr I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Tom Brokaw If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
    Tom Brokaw
    American television journalist and author (1940 - )
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  • Doug Larson If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Carl Safina If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Louis Nizer In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
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  • Henry David Thoreau Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Billy Williams Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish and we'd eat our fish. It was a ritual on Saturday morning for all my family - my grandfather, my brothers, my uncles, my father - to go fishing, and then the ladies of the family would clean the fish and fry them up.
    Billy Williams
    American baseball player (1938 - )
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  • Boo Weekley My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to do in life. Do I want to get to 50 years old and come back? Or will I just want to go home and be fishing, hunting and working around the house?
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan
    His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man
    He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop
    He said, Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.
    Working On A Dream (2009) Outlaw Pete
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
    French statesman (1754 - 1838)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bobby Jindal The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Steven Wright There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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