Bligh Quotes

#1. Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.

Bob Seger

#2. To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader.- Capt. Bligh(ret.)

Robert Asprin

#3. The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.

William Bligh

#4. As we weep for what we have lost, and as we grieve for family and friends and we confront the challenge that is before us, I want us to remember who we are. We are Queenslanders. We're the people that they breed tough, north of the border. We're the ones that they knock down, and we get up again.

Anna Bligh

#5. The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

William Bligh

#6. I hope and pray that mother nature is leaving us alone to get on with the job of cleaning up and recovering from this event.

Anna Bligh

#7. Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

William Bligh

#8. Take risks in order to innovate

Anna Bligh

#9. Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

William Bligh

#10. This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.

William Bligh

#11. The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.

William Bligh

#12. Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.

William Bligh

#13. Dear young people, listen within: Christ is knocking at the door of your heart.

Pope Francis

#14. Dr Piper smiled hugely like a big cherub. 'Of course it's wonderful. The whole world is wonderful. Everything is made to fit into its place. And you and Kirsty are the most wonderful of all. Just look at the way you are made.

Colin Thiele

#15. All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.

William Bligh

#16. Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich strange fish, grow long bright feathers, press Form's flesh around thought's rib, and so derive From the act of beauty, beauty of the act.

Philip Jose Farmer

#17. On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses.

William Bligh

#18. This weather may be breaking our hearts but it will not be breaking our will,

Anna Bligh

#19. There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.

William Bligh

#20. Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.

William Bligh

#21. In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.

William Bligh

#22. As I go about my work as Premier, I know I stand on the shoulders of giants.

Anna Bligh

#23. The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.

William Bligh

#24. People say that celebrities stop developing emotionally at the age of their success - which for Tom had been with Risky Business at twenty-one.

Leah Remini

#25. I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

Robert Crais

#26. I did not, but i saw a young girl, and she had the walk of a queen.

W.B.Yeats

#27. On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

William Bligh