43 Quotes by Jack Hemingway

But one of the most important and lasting things my father taught me was a love of the outdoors and how to respect it. I have tried to pass that curiosity and respect on to my kids and to others.

I spent the first 50 years of my life being the son of a famous father and am now spending the last 50 as the father of famous children.

But watch out for certain kinds of morels with wine. They're like a hallucenogenic.

I didn't do a lot of fighting as a kid. But I hit doors a lot.

I'm not a furniture person. You sit on the stuff, sleep on it, make love on it.

My father was a fun-loving person, not the evil, sadistic, macho, woman-hating guy that comes through in some of the biographies.

It's hard to think of your parents as lovers. You know you got here somehow, but it's hard to visualize.

Hatchery trout are like New Yorkers who live crowded together. Eventually the hatchery trout shove the wild trout out. They aren't used to congregating together and eventually they go crazy and disappear.

I know he wanted me to love fishing and hunting, and I believe that he deliberately set about to make me want to do it on my own initiative.