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Whale quotes

“Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.”


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“Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.”
Edmund Burke quotes (British Statesman and Philosopher, 1729-1797)

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“I must down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life,To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's o”
John Masefield quotes (British poet, 1878-1967)

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“A whale is harpooned only when it spouts.”
Henry Hillman quotes

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“He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.”
Herman Melville quotes (American short-story Writer, Novelist and Poet. Best known for his novels of the sea, including his masterpiece, Moby Dick. 1819-1891)
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“We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.”
John Hope quotes

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“Watching a baseball game on television is like chasing the great white whale in a goldfish bowl. It trivializes everything: men two inches high, a ball the size of a bee. It is like looking at the heavens through a dime-store telescope.”
Ward Just quotes

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“though it is by no means requisite that the American women should emulate the men in the pursuit of the whale, the felling of the forest, or the shooting of wild turkeys, they might, with advantage, be taught in early youth to excel in the race, to hit a mark, to swim, and in short to use every exercise which could impart vigor to their frames and independence to their minds. But I have dwelt enough upon this subject, and you will, perhaps, apprehend that I am about to subjoin a Utopian plan of national education: no, I leave this to the republic herself, and, wishing all success to her endeavours, I bid your farewell.”


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“Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.”
Phyllis McGinley quotes

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“Time, the dark whale, spouts blithely from his spiracle A jet of memory that makes glad the sun.”
William Rose Benet quotes

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