fishermen quotes

All that I know of our historyand thehistoryof the Indian Ocean I have got from books written by Europeans† Without Europeans, I feel, all our past would have been washed away, like the scuff marks of fishermen on the beach.

- Sir V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul
  A Bend in the River, ch.1,'The Second Rebellion'.

All Americans believethat theyare bornfishermen.Fora man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

-John Ernest Steinbeck
  Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).