Calico Jack Rackham Quotes

#1. I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That demned elusive Pimpernel

Emmuska Orczy

#3. Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

Oliver Hudson

#4. Rachel, you summon demons. You're good at it. Get over it, then find a way to make it work for you. It's not going to go away.

Kim Harrison

#5. To escape him she had run away to the end of the world. To be free of him she had run away to places where he never went.

Anais Nin

#6. Nothing was certain, but everything was safe - that was part of the mystery of Love.

Charles Williams

#7. If you would have fought like a man you wouldn't have to die like a dog."
(Anne Bonny to John "Calico Jack" Rackham)

Anne Bonny

#8. Pirates almost never sailed with women. Just four or five are known to have worked as pirates during the Golden Age. Two of them - Mary Read and Anne Bonny - became famous, dressing as men and fighting alongside one of the most celebrated of all pirate captains, 'Calico' Jack Rackham.

Robert Kurson