#salmon

For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with the clear vision of faith. When a young Celtic monk saw his cat catch a salmon swimming in shallow water, he cried, "The power of the Lord is in the paw of the cat! ↗

— Brennan Manning

#faith #monk #salmon #faith

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#all night #another #catching #done #hear

For all of us who have been involved in the recovery efforts to bring back and strengthen wild salmon runs, we fear that this change in policy could lead to further declines in these wild stocks. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#been #bring #change #could #declines

I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#eat #i #lot #salad #salmon

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#catching #example #figures #had #illustrate

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#hungry #salmon #spawn #supposed #swimming

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#always #current #feel #going #life

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#back #breathing #endangered #endangered species #endangered species act

Our favourite item was the balcony that overlooked the sea because it had an awning that you lowered by pressing an electric switch. The switch had two settings. You could either turn it to AUTO, in which case the awning lowered itself whenever the sun came out, or you could set it to MANUEL [sic], in which case, we assumed, a small, incompetent Spanish waiter came and did it for you. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#salmon-of-doubt #spanish

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#the-lovely-bones #love