Top 570 Fish Quotes

Now people who keep fish disturb me the most, if I’m totally honest. They always smell a bit like fish food and they know just a bit too much about eels.
Claudia Winkleman
I am not a fish fanatic unless it is made in a certain way. Most of the time, my parents and I would eat very light vegetarian food.
Asin
I always say that I’ve grown little flaps on a stage and I’ve got these little gills that open, because on the stage I’m in my element and I’m like a fish that’s come out when I’m on land, which is filming. I’m never quite as comfortable as I am on the stage.
Rosemary Harris
Ten inches is a very versatile size for a skillet. It’s the ideal vessel for sauteing vegetables for a small family or searing a couple of large steaks, pork chops, or pieces of fish.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
The fact that we’re catching more fish per person than we’ve ever done before doesn’t mean that there are not particular places where we’ve managed fisheries badly.
Bjorn Lomborg
Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don’t panic – take it!
Julia Child
If I’ve gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I’m really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It’s effortless.
Alice Waters
The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound – letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication.
Lyall Watson
I like to grill, like a standard guy. I like to grill steaks and fish.
Ben Falcone
You want two-thirds of that plate to be consisting of vegetables, whole grains and fruits, with one-third of it protein. That protein can be a bean – black beans, chick peas, lentils. It can be a lean protein, like fish or poultry.
Margaret Cuomo
What’s the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.
Dave Attell
What I like about Calcutta is the food. I like simple Bengali food like dal, shukto, fish, and mutton.
Barun Sobti
An Asian way of eating and living may help prevent and even reverse the progression of coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, prostate cancer and breast cancer. Incorporate more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, soy products and fish in your diet. Eat at home more with your family and friends.
Dean Ornish
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 was getting bored and, I think, being a real pest. I remember Brando coming and sitting on the bed and cutting out the most exquisite paper fish, with detailed scales and fins. Then he took a hotel pen and a piece of string and made a fishing pole.
Edward Albert
Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I’ve been doing that for a long time.
Brandi Carlile
At times, I’ve referred to Christ’s miracles, and have said, ‘Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.’
Fidel Castro
Morocco is such a beautiful place. It’s incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact. I mean, when I write something in the press, the day after in the fish market, people will be discussing it.
Fatema Mernissi
I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.
John Burnside
I love to sit down on a beanbag at the end of the day and watch my fish. It’s therapeutic, isn’t it? They’re alive, and I’m keeping them alive. I like the responsibility.
Luke Evans
I think if youre going to cut meat and fish out of your diet, you dont want to feel youre missing out.
Mary McCartney
Wrap fish fillets, sliced veggies, and other quick-cooking items inside foil packets with bundles of fresh herbs and throw them directly on the grill; the steam will release the herb’s perfume and flavor anything contained inside the pouch.
Emeril Lagasse
I can’t think of anything I regret. Everything I’ve done, I’ve enjoyed doing. I’ve had five husbands, four children. I’ve done it all, but mainly I’ve enjoyed studying fish and being underwater with them, being in their natural habitat, looking at the fish and the fish looking at me.
Eugenie Clark
My best friend and I love to make fish faces.
Beverley Mitchell
I’m a big fish eater. Salmon – I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I’m not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I’m beginning to like it more. I don’t like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything.
Elle Fanning
I am not a vegetarian. For some time, I tried to be a semi-vegetarian, eating only fish, birds, and no red meat, but… I don’t know if I have an opinion on vegetarianism.
Varg Vikernes
One of my favorite fish is the Arapaima. It lives in the Amazon and they grow maybe nine feet long and one might weigh two of me.
Jeremy Wade
Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime. Rogue economics is turning the global market into our worst nightmare.
Loretta Napoleoni
After a solid day of fishing, I'm craving something hea

After a solid day of fishing, I’m craving something hearty. That’s where a jug of buttermilk comes in. Poaching fish in buttermilk yields the luscious texture and pure flavor, but with a more substantial richness and a poaching liquid you’ll want to lap up with a spoon.
Jonathan Miles
Fish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back.
Enric Sala
I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.
Adrian Smith
Divorce is the cheapest thing in Pakistan. About 30 cents. Cheaper than fish and chips. I’ve had clients married to very rich men for 40 years, then turned out on the road with nothing.
Asma Jahangir
Eating-wise, I’m fairly disciplined. I have to be, because if you’re not eating correctly, you’re not giving your body the fuel it needs. So, I stay away from carbs after the morning, and I eat a lot of protein – fish, chicken, and no red meat.
Kate Levering
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare
Instead of giving people fish, teach them how to use hooks.
Stef Wertheimer
If I don’t fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.
Deion Sanders
Unless people die from it, a little diarrhea isn’t going to stop us from having our live fish.
Alvin Leung
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
Dean Kamen
I don’t eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.
Paul Watson
Day to day, I love eating soup and salad; lots of stews, fish, chicken, meat and veg. I eat everything, and I don’t have any fads.
Jerry Hall
People always say ‘Etta, you know what your problem is? You’re neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.’ When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks.
Etta James
I don’t order take-out sushi for the fish. Unless I’m spending a lot of money to eat at a phenomenal sushi restaurant, I eat it for the rice, which is perfectly seasoned with a mixture of salt, sugar, and rice vinegar.
Chris Morocco
I’d cut school and go over to the Lori-Ann Donut Shop and eat doughnuts. I got a job at the pet store near Lechmere, unloading fish tanks. They gave me $10 for unloading a full long-bed truckload. I never broke a fish tank. When I asked for a raise, I got fired.
Howie Long
I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.
Pauline Hanson
Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks… and being able to eat the fish afterwards.
Gloria Reuben
My diet consists of low carbs, zero sugar, zero fat, zero dairy product, lots of fish, chicken, red meat, protein shake and lots of vegetables like spinach and mushrooms.
Prateik Babbar
When the fish relaxes, that’s when I bring the rod down and reel in. But you don’t rush it. If it runs, you let it run.
Jeremy Wade
I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.
Gloria Vanderbilt
Red candy is my favorite – I like red string licorice, Swedish Fish, and red gum balls.
Dylan Lauren
When you say the word ‘undisputed,’ what do you think of? You think of something that is untouchable, undeniable. Myself, Bobby Fish, and Kyle O’Reilly are all of those things.
Adam Cole
You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.
Benicio Del Toro
It’s harder to kill off fish than mammals. But after 1,000 years of hunting the Atlantic cod, we know that it can be done.
Mark Kurlansky
What do I think about when I’m fishing? I don’t really know. Mate, I just think about how I’m going to catch my next fish.
Jimmy Bullard
I’m definitely more of an extreme eater. I’m decadent on weekends and try to go plant-based during the week with a bit of fish – pescatarian thrown in.
Antoni Porowski
I grill all the time – burgers, ribs, chicken, steak, and fish.
Michael Strahan
I have an aquarium full of fish and some Mexican walking fish.
Orianthi
The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf