Top 1200 Fly Fishing Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly.

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

I'm really glad I had the chance to live in Jensen Beach and Stuart before everything exploded. I'm always going to be fond of that area. For me, it was a sleepy little fishing town, and it kind of represents what Florida was before the development explosion.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

Fishing: I don't really like it. I don't really like the expression on the fish's face.

I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.

If you're trout fishing in the lochs of Scotland, your catch may end up like this: batter-crusted with that ubiquitous Scottish staple, oats; and served beside a generous mound of stovies, Scottish slang for stove-roasted potatoes.

I don't fly because of the enormous climate impact of aviation per person.

Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

I haven't ever really been close to retiring. I've threatened myself, that kind of thing. There were moments where I'm struggling or not healthy: It's like, OK, is this the best way I can spend my 20s? Is this something that's going to help me in the future, or I might as well be fishing or gaming.

I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.

A little mountain will kill you just as dead as a big one if you fly into it.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.

I taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!

'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.'

I hunt and fish, and I don't fly on Lear jets, and I don't smoke Cuban cigars.

Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

I have been involved with U.S. Soccer for 30 years, and I don't remember one senior woman in the organization that you would deal with on a daily basis in a position that was making decisions. That is a huge issue. How many times do you hear, 'There are no women around?' Well, they are fishing in the wrong pond.

Devon holds a special place in my heart. As a child, I normally went on holiday to Bantham and have lots of happy memories from my time there. I used to catch sand eels in the early morning and go fishing for bass throughout the day. I remember a gull taking my bait.

For too long we have placed an irrational burden upon our oceans by demanding only a narrow selection of species, which has led to unsustainable fishing and economic practices. If we instead ask the ocean what it is willing to supply, we engage in an inherently more sustainable relationship.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone

If I had to get lost in a fictional world? I would love to go with those Hemingway characters in 'The Sun Also Rises' when they go on that trip in Spain, and they go fishing. And they take the wine bottles, and they put them in the river.

'Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them into a corral, you found they did not look half so large and handsome as when they were first sighted on the prairie.

On the wings of lies, man can only fly to the land of shame and lowness!

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.

Your love has a broken wing if it cannot fly across the sea.

We say that "to let woman drive a car is like to let monkey fly a plane".

Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts.

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

I fell in love with having my feet in the water and a fly rod in my hands.

In a world full of people, only some want to fly. Isn't that crazy?

I don't have thoughts of an afterlife. I think dying is like when you swat a fly - it's over.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.

I would love to fly privately, but unfortunately, I don't. I don't summer anywhere either.

If the lambs were flying, wolves would have also the wings to fly!

If you really want your kids to fly, you don't put stones in their pockets.

I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.

I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself

Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.

We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly.

The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly.

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

Stalking along from log to log, or plunging their long legs in the oozy swamp, two large herons paid no attention to my presence, but occupied themselves with their own fishing arrangements, as if their wilderness were their own.

Don't look down, it's an impossible view; Fly like an eagle whatever you do.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing - it can't fly.

I put my phone on airplane mode and it didn't fly Worst. Transformer. Ever.

I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

The common fisheries policy unfortunately led to the devastation of fishing in Scotland. My dad had to close his business. As a result something that he been built up by by grandfather and maintained by my dad disappeared. So my dad suffered.

I've probably got the most loyal hardcore fans in the music business. You know, I can sit around, go fishing, do ten shows a year, fifteen, none, twenty, and it's just fantastic. Because they know I shoot straight and I don't talk bull.

I'm always like, "Maybe I can drive the car. I can still fly the plane!"

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.