“ Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town. ”
- Charles Kingsley- Copy
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“ We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out. ”
- Jimmy Webb- Copy
- 2.8K
“ At early dawn when the air is crisp and you're standing knee deep in a beautiful rip, you see a trout rise to an unknown fly then your heart starts to wonder why you're a neophyte fly fisherman. ”
- George W. Harvey- Copy
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“ The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. ”
- Vincent van Gogh- Copy
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“ In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch. ”
- Louis Nizer- Copy
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“ They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. ”
- Luigi Barzini- Copy
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“ Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fishermen will snatch it out in his own good time. ”
- Ivan Turgenev- Copy
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“ The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes. ”
- Alice Cary- Copy
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“ Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers. ”
- Bob Dylan- Copy
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“ Oh the brave Fisher's life, It is the best of any, 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And 'tis belov'd of many: Other joys Are but toys; Only this Lawful is, For our skill Breeds no ill, But content and pleasure. ”
- Izaak Walton- Copy
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“ Around every corner lurk greasy Fisherman's Platters that give children nightmares, Naugahyde minute steaks that put tofuburgers in a favorable light and all those ubiquitous fast-food indigestion huts. ”
- Bryan Miller- Copy
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“ We had our fishermen in various areas under self imposed limits. Now since statehood, and that's one of the reasons that we got statehood is we wanted to manage these resources. So we don't want to give it away in a management scheme that would be dictated out of Washington, D… ”
- Frank H. Murkowski- Copy
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