Quotes with sword-fish

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  • Albert Einstein Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • André Gide Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Lord George Byron For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • John Lennon He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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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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  • Ang Lee I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bethany Hamilton I'm not a vegetarian by any means; I eat fish. But the problem with shark finning is they catch the shark, cut their fins and throw them back in the ocean, and to me, that's wrong. If you're going to kill an animal, you should use the entire animal and do it humanely. I'm definitely not a big fan.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Doris Lessing If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Andrew Jackson If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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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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  • J. A. Dever In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem
    J. A. Dever
     
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  • Alexander Hamilton In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Akhenaton Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Ovid Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Ovid Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Samuel Butler Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ovid Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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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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  • John Bunyan My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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