Fishing Quotes

I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together more.

~ Catherine Zeta-Jones

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

~ John Buchan

Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.

~ Laura Donnelly

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.

~ Donald Trump

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

~ Herbert Hoover

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

~ Rex Hunt

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

~ John James Audubon

Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish and we'd eat our fish. It was a ritual on Saturday morning for all my family - my grandfather, my brothers, my uncles, my father - to go fishing, and then the ladies of the family would clean the fish and fry them up.

~ Billy Williams

I am an avid fisherman, and my daily schedule is to write in the morning and then go fishing in the afternoon. In Maine, I fish mostly for stripers, and in the Florida Keys, I go after all kinds of game fish.

~ Rodman Philbrick

I grew up hunting and fishing. I've always been into archery. I've always been into cars... In my family, that was just stuff we did. That's just the way it was.

~ Paul Walker

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

~ Paris Hilton

I do like going out and finding free food. I've done it since I was a child. Fishing prawns and shrimps from the sea is wonderful, as is picking blackberries, sloes and mushrooms. Having a guide while out looking for mushrooms is really important, though, as picking the wrong type can be quite dangerous.

~ Mary Berry

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

~ Tom Brokaw

The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

~ Paul Watson

I only make movies to finance my fishing.

~ Lee Marvin

My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.

~ Emanuel Steward

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

~ Stephen Leacock

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

~ Rafael Nadal

Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.

~ Mario Lopez

My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.

~ Steve Albini

My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.

~ Luke Bryan

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

~ Kiefer Sutherland