Whales Quotes

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
Sylvia Earle

Time, Good, Pretty

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
Paul McCartney

Time, Alone, End

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.
Dave Barry

Real, Threat, Endangered

The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
Rachel Hunter

Society, Made, Difficult

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.
Steven Tyler

Music, Beautiful, Children

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.
Lewis Thomas

Family, Around, Fact

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
Oliver Goldsmith

I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.
Mayim Bialik

Love, Ocean, Concerned

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Lie, Taken, Land

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
Iggy Pop

Down, Wanted, Ready

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
Pierce Brosnan

Children, Terrible, Imagine

Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.
Rick Danko

Remember, Between, Started

I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.
Karl Pilkington

Music, Nature, Forward

The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.
Joanna Newsom

After, Few, Started

I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.
Miranda Richardson

Someone, Nothing, Lie

They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to.
Richard Dean Anderson

Life, Great, Trying

It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.
Wavy Gravy

Against, Point, United

Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.
Wavy Gravy

Making, Week, Television

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.
George Gaylord Simpson

Put, Reason, Here

The whales, you see, eat up the little fish.
Thomas Churchyard

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