Lakes Quotes

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

I'm going to gut you like a fish.

If you're a fish and you want to be a fish-stick, you have to have very good posture.

I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.

The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.

I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!

If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.

Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.

I love fishing. It's transcendental meditation with a punchline.

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and read.

I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.

People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.

...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.

A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever-- The union of hearts--the union of hands-- And the flag of our Union for ever!

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake.

In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.

An excellent angler, and now with God.

Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.

In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water.

I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.

Sometimes you must leave everything and refresh yourself in the silence of a misty lake! Every such refreshment will give you an opportunity to make a long jump on the way to your target!

Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.

If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?

The lake at Neverland is right in the very front, and you just want to dive in.