Top 100 Sayings About A Fish
#1. I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.
Patricia Polacco
#3. We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.
Michael Stipe
#5. Be as the birds" He nodded to his pigeon crates. "Finding grace in how God made you, one with this world and the next. The pigeon does not pine to be a lark, or a cat, or a fish.
Umberto Tosi
#6. The fish does not die with regrets because the fish cannot love. I die with regrets, and yet I am glad I am not a fish.
Gabrielle Zevin
#7. Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime. Changing the world may not be so daunting after all.
Mike Breen
#8. What she didn't display, I noticed, was a boxful of swimming medals.
"Holy crap," I said, when she set them on the desk. "You're like a fish."
"Oh. Um. Well, I swim, you see."
I saw.
Maureen Johnson
#9. Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.
Vince Poscente
#10. A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.
Meg Cabot
#11. I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.
Thomas Shadwell
#12. A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.
Arthur Bloch
#13. 11What father among you, if his son asks for [4] a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 12or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
Anonymous
#14. If you're wearing smoky eye makeup, a little beige or gold pencil on the inner eye corners will open up the area, but you only want to do it if the shadow is really dark. Otherwise, light pencil makes your eyes look too far apart, like a fish.
Gisele Bundchen
#15. Greatness exists like an ocean within you. Why do you want to act like a fish out of water, wriggling on the sand under the scorching sun? Look! The water is just one millimeter away! Jump in!
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
#16. If little fish get eaten by bigger fish, and bigger fish get eaten by bigger fish ... what happens when there are no little fish? The world's populations of little fish are being harvested to make catfood!? This nonsense has to stop. Feed a fish a cat a day!
Tony Bishop
#17. They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.
Bill Geist
#18. Truthfully, I just try to get as much rest and drink water like a fish every day. If I don't get enough rest, exercise and water to keep my body healthy, then the voice begins to suffer and it can't repair overnight from the previous day's work.
Roger Craig Smith
#19. It's dangerous to tell the truth, truth without power is always dangerous. And we should fight! Freedom's not an idea, it's a passion! If you haven't got it you fight like a fish out of water fighting for air!
Edward Bond
#20. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leathery covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hands like a fish.
Francesca Lia Block
#21. I bet Aaron swims the fastest," Benny said, squeezing my hand. "He's like a fish.
Anna Carey
#22. Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
D.H. Lawrence
#23. That's like climbing a tree to find a fish.
Mencius
#24. It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!
Eugene O'Neill
#25. You don't understand people like me, like us, the other ones. You're like a bird that flies in the air, a fish that swims in the sea. You move, you look about you, you want things. There are others who live on earth and move just a little and don't look
Iris Murdoch
#26. How long must a fish study to understand human motivation?
Vernor Vinge
#27. 'The Glades' is a light cop procedural about a cop from Chicago who got shot in the bum by his captain and made a change down to Florida, so he's a bit of a fish out of water.
Matt Passmore
#28. There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.
Zane Grey
#29. How she realized at last that not even love
could justify this, that no affection could, not ever.
Still, in the glass, she sees her own mouth,
opening and closing and silent as a fish.
Zoe Brigley
#30. Analogy," Susan said. "Hawk's world is not like anyone else's." I nodded. "So asking Hawk about Thanksgiving is like asking a fish about a bicycle," Susan said.
Robert B. Parker
#31. Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit.
Viggo Mortensen
#32. Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.
Ray Comfort
#33. He was glad to be human. For sure, it was a great inconvenience to have to walk on two legs and wear clothes. There were so many things he didn't know. Yet had he been a fish or a sunflower, and not a human being, he might never have experienced this emotion.
Haruki Murakami
#34. Coralie felt something pierce through her, as if she were a fish on a hook, unable to break free. She felt a tie to the stranger, drawn to his every movement.
Alice Hoffman
#35. The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.
Marianne Moore
#36. Scotch needs water like a fish needs a bicycle.
W.C. Fields
#37. We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist.
Neil Shubin
#38. You can lead a fish to water and it will probably thank you after it jumps in and catches it breath. LOL
K.R. Freeman
#39. If you're a fish and you want to be a fish-stick, you have to have very good posture.
Mitch Hedberg
#40. We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those who have voice.
Mamoru Oshii
#41. Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
Arnold H. Glasow
#42. These days, it seems like you can't throw a fish in a bookstore without hitting a high-stakes love triangle
not that I recommend the throwing of fish in bookstores, mind you, as it certainly annoys the booksellers, not to mention the fish ...
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#43. Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.
Aristotle.
#44. He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
John Lennon
#45. I will hear a noise, like a fish jumping, and when I look I'll see Lizzy coming to the surface, shaking off her pink scales, finding her new arms to do the breaststroke to shore.
Jane Hamilton
#46. Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
D.T. Suzuki
#47. Human life is just dangerous, in general. You know, waking up in the morning, you could get hit by a car. Wherever you go, you could choke on a fish bone and die. You never know.
Meital Dohan
#48. I WAS a mermaid in my past-life! I definitely was. I don't know why I'm obsessed with them that much, which is why I think that somehow in my past-life I must have just lived underwater or something. Maybe I was a fish or a dolphin, but I do believe in mermaids.
Ella Henderson
#49. A fish kept in a glass of water will live forever
Samuel Pepys
#50. God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#51. If you cannot catch a fish, do not blame the sea.
Greek Proverb
#52. It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.
Michael Faraday
#53. Sometimes it's wiser to give a quarry extra line
that's how to catch a fish, neh?
James Clavell
#54. If you want to convince the world that a fish can sense your emotions, only one statistical measure will suffice: the p-value.
Charles Seife
#56. If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know
how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.
Norman Maclean
#57. Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes
Andrew Heller
#58. We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.
Kobe Bryant
#59. Kestrel could read an expression as if looking through shifting water to see the grainy bottom, the silt rising or settling, the dart of a fish.
Marie Rutkoski
#60. What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.
Jay Inslee
#61. Understanding the language of eyes now came as naturally to him as swimming in the ocean came to a fish and flying in the sky to a bird!
Avijeet Das
#63. Any creature, even one as unassuming as a fish, can become something mighty. When they courageously endure their trials, they meet their destiny.
Colleen Houck
#64. and there was a fish pond a large one full of the fattest goldfish you ever saw and they were tame. they came to the surface of the water and took pieces of bread from our hands.
Charles Bukowski
#65. I want to keep our body above water. you want to make us a fish. - fish
Nayyirah Waheed
#66. Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.
William Shakespeare
#67. Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else.
FOUCAULT MICHEL
#68. We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know how to clean and fry a fish.
John Gierach
#69. Prayer is meant to happen everywhere. After all, Daniel prayed in the lion's den. Jonah prayed in a fish's stomach. Elijah prayed in the desert. And Jesus prayed on the cross.
Jared Brock
#71. If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.
Robin McKinley
#72. I walked around as you do, investigating
the endless star,
and in my net, during the night,
I woke up naked,
the only thing caught,
a fish trapped inside the wind.
Pablo Neruda
#73. A wish is a dish that's a lot like a fish: Once it's been eaten it's harder to throw back. - Mr. Rakshasas
P.B. Kerr
#74. Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.
Kevin DeYoung
#75. Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.
Owen Feltham
#76. Here is a fish swimming around comfortably and (he thinks) unobtrusively, flicking here and there amongst the kelp and the plankton. Draw away for the long view and there's the kicker: It's a goldfish bowl.
Stephen King
#77. A woman needs a strong man to take care of her like a fish needs a bicycle.
John Green
#78. The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain.
Rashi
#80. You must have wished a million times to be normal."
"No."
"No?"
"I've wished I had two heads. Or that I was invisible. I've wished for a fish's tail instead of legs. I've wished to be more special."
"Not normal?"
"Never.
Katherine Dunn
#81. Come on, hurry up, snailpaws," Toklo growled at Lusa. He poked her in the side with his nose. "Where's all that annoying early-morning cheerfulness you're usually so full of?"
"Well, maybe if you hadn't woken me up by dropping a fish on my head," Lusa protested, yawning.
Erin Hunter
#82. Like a fish needs a bicycle. A goldfish riding a bicycle underwater. I need a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
Irina Dunn
#83. I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.
Sarah Palin
#84. Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.
William Shakespeare
#85. with a face like a fish pressed to glass; eyes so large they appear distorted. "Is
Lauren Oliver
#86. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Maimonides
#87. I would like to go fishing and catch a fish stick. That would be convenient. I could easily get a job at Mrs. Paul's.
Mitch Hedberg
#88. Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.
Amor Towles
#90. I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.
Carlos Pena Jr.
#91. You know nothing, Jon Snow. I'm half a fish, I'll have you know.
George R R Martin
#92. What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim!"
~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr
Lloyd Alexander
#93. It is impossible to know when a fish swimming in water drinks some of it. Thus it's quite impossible to find out when government servants in charge of undertakings misappropriate money.
Ashwin Sanghi
#94. Each one carries with him to the end traces of his birth, the slime and eggshells of a primordial world. Many a one never becomes a human-being, but remains a frog, lizard, or ant. Many a one is a human-being above and a fish below.
Hermann Hesse
#96. Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#97. People who wouldn't dream of drowning a puppy in a barrel full of water think nothing of killing a fish the same slow way.
Karen Traviss
#98. According to the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, fish have feelings too. Whenever my sons go fishing they always tell me, "Dad it doesn't hurt a fish to get hooked." Well I watch and I see and I believe it's painful for the fish.
Donald Trump
#99. I could totally be a ...
whatever."
"Sailor?"
"On a boat?"
"Yep."
"Yeah." He'll sigh all wistfully. "I could be a sailor. But I'm too busy being a fish.
Hannah Moskowitz
#100. They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel.
Craig Ferguson
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