81 Dolphin Quotes

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Famous Dolphin Quotes

Who doesn't like dolphins? They're like puppies. — Austin Stowell

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group. — Peter Singer

There is something about dolphins. It is difficult to put into words. — Mark Carwardine

Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching. — Yoko Ono

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints. — John James Audubon

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage — Plutarch

A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy. — Ric O'Barry

I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins. - Kathleen Quinlan

I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins. — Kathleen Quinlan

There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more. - Albert Einstein

There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more. — Albert Einstein

I just tell people I'm a dolphin trainer. It's better for everyone. — Matthew Walker

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise. - Lewis Carroll

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise. — Lewis Carroll

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

More than anything, it was the blue dolphins that took me back home. — Scott O'Dell

...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light. — Ellen Meloy

Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

Short Dolphin Quotes

  • I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me. — Lykke Li
  • To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins. — Patti Stanger
  • You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool? — Miley Cyrus
  • The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling. — Al Michaels
  • I’m not going to be the Alabama coach. — Nick Saban
  • Anybody that's a Dolphins fan feels they're headed in the right direction. — Don Shula
  • I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin. — Morgan Freeman
  • Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws. — Tom Robbins
  • Hey man, can you talk to dolphins and pilot whales with that huge forehead of yours? — Tucker Max
  • You can't make chicken salad out of chicken feathers — Joe Kuhel

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Miami Dolphin Quotes

I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami. — Dan Marino

I like Halloween. It gives you a chance to dress up like something you're not, you know? Like when the Miami Dolphins put on football uniforms. — David Letterman

Marco Rubio announced he's running for president. Fun fact: Marco Rubio's wife is a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader. In other words, she knows how to generate fake enthusiasm for someone who's not going to win. — Conan O'Brien

Can't make chicken salad out of chicken noodle — Mike Ditka

In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on. — Kevin McKidd

I've got a lot of good friends - the owner of the Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets - both owners are friends of mine. — Mitt Romney

Swimming With Dolphin Quotes

If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?' — Miley Cyrus

My daughter saw this billboard for this place: 'Swim With the Dolphins.' She goes, 'I wanna do that.' I said, 'It's a lot of money - forget about it.' She said, 'Dad, I always wanted to swim with the dolphins.' 'Always, or since you saw the sign? — Robert Schimmel

Why do people want to swim with dolphins? The equivalent would be an Indonesian fellow coming over here, going up to a farmer and saying 'Can I get in with the cows? I just fancy scuffling about with them.' — Bill Bailey

It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special. — Sarah Chalke

I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin. — Karl Pilkington

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More Dolphin Quotes

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive. Charles Tennyson Turner - A Summer Night in the Bee Hive The happiness of the bee & the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that & to wonder at it. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air. — Christina Applegate

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to think about thinking about their thinking, which the goddamn dolphin, as far as we know, can't do. Therefore they have much greater ability to change themselves than any other animal has. — Albert Ellis

One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us. — Ben Okri

I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. — William Shakespeare

Science is a seagull, it knows the sky; it is a squirrel, it knows the forest; it is a mole, it knows the underground; it is a dolphin, it knows the ocean! Science is a multi-talented creature! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and ivory, of dolphins and the juice of July flowers, of the milk of unicorns and panthers’ breath, of ropes of pearl, brains of peacocks and Cretan wine. — Virginia Woolf

Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises. — Colin Mochrie

The creatures of the sea hold special mystery, and they are among the most exciting, graceful, and beautiful on Earth. Just consider the living riot of a coral reef, the beauty of an albatross, the awesome power of a giant turtle, the grace of a dolphin. Now multiply that by the millions of creatures in the sea. Wow! — Carl Safina

A bunch of bong-smoking, America-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites. These are the sensitive, liberal people who are always yelling about people's freedom of speech and expression, unless you happen to say something that pisses them off. — Richard Jeni

Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself. — Sue Monk Kidd

I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change. — Dan Marino

I WAS a mermaid in my past-life! I definitely was. I don't know why I'm obsessed with them that much, which is why I think that somehow in my past-life I must have just lived underwater or something. Maybe I was a fish or a dolphin, but I do believe in mermaids. — Ella Henderson

Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons. — Douglas Adams

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. — Carl Sagan

The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very complex. They are thinkers. — Owsley Stanley

You ever go to shop for tuna, and it says "dolphin safe", and you look at it and kind of go, "Yeah, but"-like somehow you think it's not going to be as good? Like, "I want to do the right thing-but it's probably kind of bland without the dolphin." — Louis C. K.

Sweetness! World needs sweetness! It needs a sweet child, a sweet dolphin, a sweet monkey; it needs sweet people to soften the callous hearts! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

And I have stopped eating tuna until the tuna nets cease killing tens of thousands of dolphins every single year. — Steve Irwin

Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked. — Anna Quindlen

What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...? — William Butler Yeats

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain. — Evelyn Glennie

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