The codfish lays a thousand eggs, The homely hen lays one. The codfish never cackles To tell you what she's done... And so we scorn the codfish, While the humble hen we prize. It only goes to show you That it pays to advertise!Mark Kurlansky
War is not about who is right, it is about who is left.Mark Kurlansky
There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the universe.Mark Kurlansky, citing Albert Einstein
Fishermen have been the backbone of Newfoundland history and the salt cod fishery was the main reason that people first came to live on this island.Mark Kurlansky
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.Mark Kurlansky
What people do isn't determined by where they live. It happens to be their damned fault. They decided to watch television rather than think. If you provide a distraction, they will take it.Mark Kurlansky
The trial of cod is not just about the survival of a species but about whether humans, the planet's highest reasoning beings, can responsibly manage the world's resources.Mark Kurlansky
Catch a cod, collect the eggs, and raise them in hatching jars. You get say to ten percent survival, which is not bad. Then what? The ocean is a very big place.Mark Kurlansky
When the ice went out, and the transparent two-toned April water broke loose from the winter, they would start for the fishing grounds. The cod moved in to spawn inshore.Mark Kurlansky
There is no future for a people who deny their past. My Foreparents, My Grandparents, My Mother, My Father did not suffer and die to give me an education to slight, oppress or discourage my people.Mark Kurlansky, citing Adam Clayton Powell Jr.