55 Fish Quotes And Sayings Swimming In Inspiration (2024)

"I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter."

"I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish."

"The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark."

"Beyond individual intelligence, nature has also cultivated intelligence through swarms. For example, bees, birds and fish act in a more intelligent way when acting together as a swarm, flock or school."

"Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon - it's a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function."

"If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean."

"If we keep on destroying fish, there won't be any left. If the oceans die, we all die. It's as simple as that."

"What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing."

"Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime. Rogue economics is turning the global market into our worst nightmare."

"The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone."

"We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat."

"Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around."

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"Fishing is not just about catching fish; it's about understanding the delicate balance of nature."

"If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago."

"To go fishing is a chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of the sun on blue water."

"Fishing is not an escape from life, but often a deeper immersion into it."

"Fishing is not just a hobby; it's a state of mind."

"I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there."

"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."

"The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after."

"Fishing is an affirmation of life's richness and our profound interconnectedness to the natural world."

"There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon."

"We're at the creek catching fish with a holey net. Understandably, this may take some time. Come join us if you enjoy frustration."

"Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting."

"A woman who has never seen her husband fishing doesn't know what a patient man she married!"

"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."

"A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other."

"My biggest worry is that when I'm dead and gone, my wife will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it."

"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."

"Anyone can be a fisherman in May."

"Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy."

"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."

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

"You can be a big fish in a small pond, but you're only going to be competing against people at that level."

"I prefer being a small fish in a big pond."

"I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond."

"Big fish are worth of fishing even if you don't catch one."

"He who wants to catch fish must not mind getting wet."

"Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides."

"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish."

"A little fish is supper for a large fish."

"Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut."

"Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground."

"It is only in deep waters that a fish knows how strong it is."

"Do not tell fish stories where the people know you. Particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish."

"There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm."

"The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats."

"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit."

"I am an ocean lover and fish watcher and had studied marine biology and even taught marine sciences before I got into animation."

"I've memorized all the fish in the sea I've memorized each opportunity strangled and I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love and I've memorized that too."

"No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth - everything I need comes from my fish and vegetarian diet, which incorporates many different kinds of fruit and vegetables every week."

"I just learned how to scuba dive. I'd been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating."

"Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy."

"Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment."

"Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise."