Roderick Haig Brown Quotes

#1. I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly, but by the colour and movement of the water and sky, by the sounds and scents and gentle stirrings that were all about me.

Roderick Haig-Brown

#2. Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

Roderick Haig-Brown

#3. 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

#4. A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks

Roderick Haig-Brown

#5. A fisherman is always hopeful
nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

Roderick Haig-Brown

#6. You really can't categorize my music, it's human music.

Kendrick Lamar

#7. Then you panic because you've never known the difference between a sweet potato and a yam and both are on the counter, and if you start making a yam pie you'll never hear the end of it.

Ellen DeGeneres

#8. To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.

Roderick Haig-Brown

#9. Anglers ... exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

Roderick Haig-Brown

#10. I'M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes.

Benjamin Watson

#11. I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel.

Roderick Haig-Brown

#12. I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

Roderick Haig-Brown

#13. The more restricted a method, the lesser the opportunity for one's individual freedom of expression.

Bruce Lee

#14. From Louisiana, he followed the hyphens in the road that blurred together toward a faraway place, bridging unrelated things as hyphens do.

Isabel Wilkerson

#15. True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that the earth-life can become a conscious instrument of God.

Sri Chinmoy

#16. He was was especially excited about Aguirre, the Wrath of God. 'Look at this crazy dude,' he yelled, pointing at Klaus Kinski, who on the cover is wearing a Viking helmet and looks like a psychopath.

Jesse Andrews

#17. I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water ... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

Roderick Haig-Brown

#18. Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams. And one of the big four - brownie, or brookie, cutthroat or rainbow - is the cause of it all

Roderick Haig-Brown

#19. The sun rose. Flowers bloomed. People even continued to talk to me as if I weren't a complete failure, as if they didn't know or possibly -- unthinkably -- didn't care. Life went on. I think that's when I realized that it's all bullshit.

Johnny B. Truant

#20. Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

Roderick Haig-Brown

#21. 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