Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

Fishing keeps you alive, gives you time away - to enjoy God, the creations that He made. Because God made you.

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I'm very grateful for that... spending the day on my own, being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing.

I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

I need my outdoors, my comfort.

Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.

Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.

I really enjoy spending time at home.

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.

I would love to sit at home all day and play with my kids. It's my favorite thing to do in my time off.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.