Top 570 Fish Quotes

If I pull in a fish I have no intention of eating, I release him immediately or give it away. If he’s swallowed the hook and you know the fish is going to die, rather than leave him to the sharks you should bring him in for the vitamin content. Aquariums welcome fish for feeding the dolphins and whales.
Van Heflin
I definitely love beaches. I love to surf. I love to fish, and I’m always in need of a suntan.
Dustin Lynch
Beware of fish that is very inexpensive.
Mark Kurlansky
I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.
Stacy Keibler
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
Aneurin Bevan
I love my fish spatula so much. I don’t have many specialty tools, but that’s a favorite of mine.
Marcela Valladolid
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
A lot of people who like sushi don’t really like raw fish or seaweed.
Guy Fieri
Some people find the appearance of cuttlefish off-putting, but I think this lesser eaten fish is really exciting and versatile. It’s similar to squid or octopus and should either be cooked quickly on a high heat or very low and slow until it’s tender.
Monica Galetti
I like fish, and I also like bear’s paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear’s paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.
Mencius
You cannot build a company or manage a life by chasing others; you have to find your success competing against yourself. There will always be a bigger fish.
Michael Gerber
Yellow fin or albacore are excellent tasting, or the dolphin fish but I don’t mean the mammal variety. They call It mahimahi in Hawaii.
Van Heflin
I knew more about produce from the sea than any of my schoolmates, and my reports in school, from kindergarten on, amused and shocked my classmates and teachers. I told them how we ate with chopsticks, had rice and seaweed for breakfast, raw fish, octopus, and sea urchin eggs for supper, and cakes made from sharks.
Eugenie Clark
Younger generations in particular, who have spent a great deal of time in information environments since they were small children, would feel like a fish out of water if they were shut out of the global stream of information.
Hubert Burda
I learned very quickly there’s not a lot to do in South Florida when you can’t golf or fish.
Justin Thomas
Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?
Mark Bittman
I eat foods such as fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables while avoiding red meat, dairy and wheat.
Martine McCutcheon
I normally eat everything under the sun, but once a year, for a whole month, I eat nothing but fruits, vegetables, nuts, and lean fish, and I feel great!
Elizabeth Mitchell
Whenever possible, organic produce, fish, poultry, eggs, and other products are preferred.
Margaret Cuomo
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to deve

Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.
Alvar Aalto
I used to be a model and a medical test subject, though never at the same time. And since we didn’t have much money when I was a kid, I know how to fish and hunt for my supper. And I used to win awards in speech in high school, which comes in handy when I speak to 200 people at a writers’ conference.
MaryJanice Davidson
Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He’s a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he’s half fish.
Rob Lowe
Beef should be organic and grass-fed; fish should be wild, not farm raised.
Suzanne Somers
There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.
Donella Meadows
How is it macho that I like to hunt and fish? I’ve been doing it since I was four.
Jim Harrison
I like to fish. I collect pocketknives. I inherited a nice collection from my father and grandfather.
Chris Stapleton
I first encountered fish jerky during a marlin tournament in Kona, Hawaii. It was steeped in the island flavors of ginger, soy, and pineapple.
Jonathan Miles
The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
Eric Butterworth
So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick – but at least I’d had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.
John Prescott
I have managed to conquer my fear of fire one fish at a time. I’ve gone from eating sushi to prawns, to baking sea bass fillets.
Katie Piper
With all due respect to the nation’s fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Sadly, in my work on shows like ‘Eat Well For Less?’ I know that people ARE misinformed about what’s on their plate. Many would be shocked to discover their Friday fish and chips is close to 1,400 calories.
Gregg Wallace
Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I’m scripting our interrelationship with them.
Natalie Jeremijenko
Increase your consumption of healthful fats like extra virgin olive oil, avocado, grass-fed beef, wild fish, coconut oil, nuts and seeds. At the same time, keep in mind that modified fats like hydrogenated or trans fats are the worst choices for brain health.
David Perlmutter
I’ve had fish come up on stage, and it’s pretty disgusting. I try and discourage that. I discourage anything flying up on stage, actually.
Les Claypool
Wireless technology has completely revolutionized information transmission and exchange in India. If you go in the coastal areas, small-scale fishermen who go out in small boats, they now carry a cellphone, which has GPS data on wave heights, where the fish are, et cetera.
M. S. Swaminathan
The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
Ian Anderson
Polynesian women are known for their long hair, glowing skin, and thick nails. And that comes from the local diet, which is mostly plant based with a little bit of fish and a lot of natural fats and oils.
Nikki Reed
Every morning when I woke up, my mother was already in the kitchen making breakfast. It was always the same: steamed rice, pickled vegetables, grilled fish and miso soup. Each day there was something different in the soup such as tofu or potatoes.
Nobu Matsuhisa
I’m always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein – it’s down to him that I cook fish so much – and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.
Charles Hazlewood
I still haven’t quite got used to eating live fish.
David Mitchell
In Japanese, sushi does not mean raw fish. It means seasoned rice.
Guy Fieri
It’s not like I’m out eating McDonald’s and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fixes dinner every single night – baked chicken, fish – she cooks a great meal every single night.
Bryce Harper
Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they’re hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish – where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy – could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
Ramez Naam
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.
Jennifer Morrison
It is to be observed that ‘angling’ is the name given to fishing by people who can’t fish.
Stephen Leacock
I’ve became a coffee drinker since I gave up boxing. I also love to eat anything cooked by a Jamaican. Carbs like rice, yellow yam, Renta yam, sweet yam. Also salt fish fried with onions.
Chris Eubank Sr.
Well, I love fishing. I wouldn’t kill a fly myself but I’ve no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that’s not the only reason.
Norman MacCaig
I tell aspiring entrepreneurs all the time: Validate your idea locally. Get some experience under your belt. Prove your idea has legs where you are. Spend some time as a big fish in a small pond. Demonstrate that there’s a there there… there. Where you live.
Marc Randolph
North of England, you’re brought up on fish and chips. Friday or Saturdays every week, it was a treat.
Andrew Flintoff
To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you ar

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
John C. Hawkes
Underwater, I experience space with my body. I’ll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I’ll exclaim, ‘This is architecture.’
Antoine Predock
If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish!
Ryan Stiles
I’m on this diet where you’re supposed to eat only fish and meat.
Lasse Hallstrom
To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I’m a meat eater and a griller – I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!
Taylor Kinney
In the case of ‘Fish,’ I did the writing, design, and code all at the same time, so the form and the content were fused together. I’d change some words, get an idea, change some code, see if it worked, change more words, and so on.
Robin Sloan
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.
Louis B. Rosenberg