This collection holds 57 fisherman quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Darby Stanchfield, Ernest Hemingway and Michael Buble.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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My dad was a crab fisherman.

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

I thought without a doubt I would be a fisherman.

Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.

My grandad was a fisherman and my dad was a fisherman.

I was a bass fisherman. I liked bass. That was my thing.

The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.

The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.

What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

I had gone from job to job up in London before 'Fisherman's Friends'.

Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]

I'm a fisherman. I've always loved fishing. I grew up fishing for trout.

You need a good gardener and a good fisherman. The cook is not required.

The fish, Even in the fisherman's net, Still carries, The smell of the sea.

Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. I've got no place to retire to.

A positive attitude and an open mind are true characteristics of all good fishermen

My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.

A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

I am a woman. I am a fisherman. As I have said, I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl.

I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development.

I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about.

I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.

There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.

I'm a bit of a dynamite fisherman when it comes to cooking as I don't have the patience, but I am a huge foodie.

I'm a big outdoorsman... I'm a big hunter. Avid fisherman. Hiker. Climber. Scuba diver. Skier. Love the outdoors.

We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

My father used to be a fisherman, so it always makes me feel close to him when I am there on the water catching my dinner.

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

Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.

I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.

Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

In Montana, whether you're a farmer, whether you're a fisherman... you know that the climate is changing, and we need to do something about it.

I was back on the road for three tours, worked harder than a Bering Sea fisherman, and I made a lot of money and thought I would buy a helicopter.

I watched 'Dexter,' but it ended in a really weird way. I think it's going to start over again because he's a new character; he's like a fisherman.

I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical, it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.

I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. What I loved about it was, you got paid for what you caught.

Fishing in sustainable ways means fewer fish, higher quality, better price at the market. That is a formula that is good for the environment and the fisherman but bad for the consumer.

Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once charged by a black bear. I love bears.

I used to be an open-spear fisherman, and if you're looking for fish, you're never going to see them. In an almost meditative state, you have to pick out anomalies, something out of the ordinary.

If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have intrusted it to fishermen. To defend the gospel appertains not to the princes and pontiffs of this world.

How indifferent are men to this carpenter or that fisherman, who has no word to speak of adventure or of wealth, but has only the word of God to proclaim, and has no credentials but that he comes in the name of the Lord.

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

When I was young, I wanted to be like the rappers. I remember being in junior high and wanting a fisherman hat and a link because EPMD had one. I wanted to wear Adidas because Run-DMC wore Adidas. As I came into my own, I just wanted to do me.

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

You know, I met a wise man centuries ago in China who said to me, ‘He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master. (Acheron) Confucius? (Talon) No, Minh-Quan. He was a fisherman who used to sell what I’m told was the best zong zi ever made. (Acheron)

Wireless technology is creating entrepreneurship on a small scale that allows a single woman to set up a business in a small village or a single farmer or fisherman to access and disseminate market information in order to get the best price for their products.

Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced to do to make a living; how could such an activity bring me - a woman no less - pleasure?

I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.

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