Quotes about Fishing
So Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many, the net was not torn.
- John 21:11
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
- Herbert Hoover
Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.
- Herbert Hoover
Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.
- Herbert Hoover
Mire, mire! called the man. He was fishing about in his pockets and soon he was juggling four small wooden balls in front of Glanton's horse. The horse snorted and lifted its head and Glanton leaned over the saddle and spat and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. Aint that the drizzlin shits, he said.
- Cormac McCarthy
All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.
- Wendell Berry
Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.
- Wendell Berry
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ as those who left their nets and their fishing boats to become "fishers of men".
- Billy Graham
If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
- Dan Quayle
We all love being outdoors. Grandma was in her garden or fishing; Mama loves to fish and I love to be outside. We all love the Lord.
- Reba McEntire
Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!
- Herbert Hoover