Whale Hunting Quotes

Right whales - so named because they were 'the right whale to kill' - grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths.

I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.

For all I know, our navy was shooting at whales out there.

I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.

Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.

The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?

I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean

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.

Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had torn his leg out - to the ends of the Earth, no matter what happened. In the final scene of the novel, Captain Ahab is being borne out to sea, wrapped around the white whale with the rope of his own harpoon and going obviously to his death. It was a scene of almost suicidal finality.

Environmental activists in the rough Antarctic seas have launched a new tool in the fight to stop a Japanese operation to kill hundreds of whales: remote-controlled drones.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

It’s all in there. We have harpooned every whale in the ocean.

How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean.

Whaling was the oil business of its day.

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

I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

This isn't a hunt that's going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of thousands of whales that will be killed by the Japanese and Norwegians.

By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.

A number of anxious dwarfs trying to grill a whale.

In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away, the Basques chased them further and further, with the consequence that the fishermen of Biarritz discovered America before Columbus did. This is a matter for local pride but on a larger view it is not quite so stunning, since with the possible exception of the Swiss everybody discovered America before Columbus did.

When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.