Fish Quotes

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed.

So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

I'm going to gut you like a fish.

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

A selfish man is a thief.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.

I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

My oldest son always wants to race. He's kind of like me and it now has carried over to the other two. They're all pretty competitive now. We do stuff in the pool. They're like fish in water. They go all over the place. They're kids. They like to play, have fun and compete with everything they do.

If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.

I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning.

People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.