I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting. — Miranda Lambert
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. — Charles Dickens
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. — Herbert Hoover
They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers. — Samuel de Champlain
If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting. — Aristotle
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. — Paul Rodriguez
When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible. — Dale Earnhardt
Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living. — Jim Harrison
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. — Paul Schullery
I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest. — DeForest Kelley
Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. — Bertrand Russell
We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns. — W. S. Gilbert
Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot. — Pamela Anderson
Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself. — Robin Williams
He who runs with wolves will learn to howl. — Mexican Proverbs
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. — Patrick F. McManus
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. — Norman Schwarzkopf
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. — Aldo Leopold
Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts. — Desi Arnaz
'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! — Ezra Pound
You cannot hunt with a tied dog. — Albanian Proverbs
Hunting Image Quotes
Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.
Fishing Day Quotes
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. — George Carlin
I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well. — Sayings
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. — Benjamin Franklin
Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he will eat for a life time.
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. — Norman Maclean
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. — Patrick Young
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence. — Vladimir Nabokov
Fish and guests smell when they are three days old. — Indian Proverbs
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home. — Roderick Haig-Brown
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. — Benjamin Disraeli
Remember folks, fish are like relatives. After two days, they stink. — Bobby Heenan
Fishing Quotes
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. — Karl Marx
I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different. — Lil Wayne
His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular. — Idi Amin
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet. — Unknown Author
The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish. — Otto von Bismarck
The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after. — Henry David Thoreau
Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish. — Jose Rizal
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God. — Kabir
We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out. — Thomas Mcguane
Great Fishing Quotes
The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be. — John Gierach
They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore. — John Gierach
Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale. — William Carlos Williams
The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, humankind to himself. — Indian Proverbs
He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One — Said Nursi
The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you? — Lee Wulff
Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up. — Arnold Gingrich
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. — William Shakespeare
Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect — Norman Maclean
If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong. — John Gierach
Hunting Season Quotes
I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou. — George Strait
Aren’t you going to ask me how it went, Kitten?" “You walked in and took the stairs one at a time,” I answered. “And you haven’t barked at me to get in the car, so I take it Majestic didn’t tell you our asses were trophies for hunting season. Am I wrong? — Jeaniene Frost
Most calves and fawns will soon die. Only the luckiest and fittest will survive. Therefore either hunters or Mother Nature can take them. The logical harvesting strategy is to take calves or fawns during the fall hunting seasons, before winter can waste them. — Valerius Geist
I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season. — Hedy Lamarr
I take really good care of myself. I promised myself long ago that I would never miss a hunting season, never poison my sacred temple with drugs, alcohol, tobacco or bad food. — Ted Nugent
I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon. — Dan Quayle
Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass. — Maurice Grimaud
Trout Fishing Quotes
I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution. — John Gierach
Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed. — John Gierach
All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy. — Norman Maclean
Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface. — Edward Abbey
Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point. — Thomas Mcguane
Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains. — Alexander Pope
If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago. — Zane Grey
Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip. — John Gierach
It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year. — Theodore Gordon
Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once. — Lee Wulff
Catching Fish Quotes
If you want to catch fish, don’t throw your net into the bathtub. — Reinhard Bonnke
Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point. — John Gierach
The best fish hook cannot catch limp cheese — Greek Proverbs
Catch fish with one hand at the same time. — Thai Proverbs
Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries. — Jim Gerlach
If you cannot catch a fish, do not blame the sea — Greek Proverbs
Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful. — David Lynch
Without hard work, you won't even catch a fish from the pond. — Russian Proverbs
Duck Hunting Quotes
We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines. — Dianne Feinstein
A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation's greatest assets — Nash Buckingham
Don’t always trust what you see. In a bull market even a duck looks like a swan. — Vijay Kedia
You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That’s why so many rednecks die in strange ways. — Jase Robertson
The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting. — Massad Ayoob
A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be. — Fred Bear
The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men. — Ken Follett
Most people named Willie are either in prison or on the armwrestling circuit. — Jase Robertson
I never had a hat, never wore one, but recently was given a brown suede duck-hunting hat. The moment I put it on I realized I was starved for a hat. I kept it warm by putting it on my head. I made plans to wear it especially when I was going to do any thinking. Somewhere in Virginia, I lost my hat. — John Cage
[W]atching ducks land on a lake in Arkansas in the winter is about the closest to Heaven as you can find on this earth... and as someone who believes, according to my faith, I will go to Heaven when I die, I am pretty sure that there is duck hunting in Heaven! — Mike Huckabee
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering. — Jim Harrison
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea. — E. E. cummings
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. — Brooks Atkinson
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. — Wendell Berry
I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't. — John Gierach
The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them. — John Gierach
A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart — Roderick Haig-Brown
Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development? — Edward Abbey
They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret. — Jonathan Swift
There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. — Chinua Achebe
I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man. — Al Capone
Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone. — Leonard Ravenhill
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. — John Muir
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. — William Ewart Gladstone
I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak. — Sitting Bull
I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home. — Ronald Reagan
For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words. — Albert Schweitzer
The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their own that is of importance to them apart from their utility to us. They are not only in the world, they are aware of it. What happens to them matters to them. Each has a life that fares better or worse for the one whose life it is. — Tom Regan
'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.' — Robert Ruark
Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater. — Lloyd Bridges
In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies of our black children. — Harry Belafonte
If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die. — Claude McKay
Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns. — Rick Danko
The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. — Oscar Wilde
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got of their bark hides. — John Muir
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it — Alfred Whitney Griswold
Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. — Jimmy Buffett
If you fellows have been hunted from one end of the country to the other as I have been, you’ll understand what a bad man’s reputation is built on. I’ve had credit for more killings than I ever dreamt of — Doc Holliday
Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color. — Rumi
The population is made up of four types of people: A small number hunt witches. A large number go along with the hunt. A larger number are silent. A tiny number oppose it. The final group – as if by magic – become witches. — Bret Weinstein
When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God. — Fred Bear
I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him. — John Philip Sousa
It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality. — Gregory of Nazianzus
Go afield with a good attitude, with respect for the wildlife you hunt and for the forest and fields in which you walk. Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make you a better person. — Fred Bear
I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison. — Rosie O'Donnell
You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox. — Tim Vine
I like Mark Hunt and I've always said good things about Mark Hunt. He goes a little bit off the rails every now and again, but I've never done anything but respect Mark Hunt. — Dana White
I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life. — Georg Solti
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