Quotes About Boat Captains

#1. College students, couples, people covered with eagle tattoos, boat captains, white-haired folks - we were all singing, waiting especially for the chorus

Peter Jenkins

#2. Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

Vance Havner

#3. I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky.

George Gordon Byron

#4. I turn to contemporary fiction seeking a shared awareness with the writer of the cultural moment we both occupy, its peculiar challenges.

Jennifer Egan

#5. A boat can't have two captains.

Akira Mori

#6. Noel [Charles, husband] and I love cooking. He does his cooking and I do mine. I'm the traditional English cook, with a twist now and then. Because I was married to an Italian, I'm also pretty good at Italian food. Noel, he can cook anything, so can Julian.

Cynthia Lennon

#7. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#8. Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.

Beverly Lewis

#9. I became a boat captain because I loved the water and had been on a boat since I was eight. I captained the boat by myself because I liked being alone.

Diane Wilson

#10. I built it all by myself : My Country.
Petra Hermans

Petra Hermans

#11. We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#12. The progress of the friendship between Catherine and Isabella was quick as its beginning had been warm ... and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together.

Jane Austen

#13. He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.

Socrates

#14. Have you come to terms with what's going to happen between us?

N.D. Jones

#15. Some captains made no attempt to save the lives of merchant seamen; others went so far as to tow lifeboats towards land. One u-boat commander sent the captain of a torpedoed ship three bottles of wine to ease the long row ashore.

Erik Larson

#16. Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Theodore Parker

#17. Racial antipathies have some roots in ethnic origin, but they are also generated, perhaps predominantly, by differences of acquired culture - of language, dress, habits, morals, or religion. There is no cure for such antipathies except a broadened education.

Will Durant

#18. Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.

Andrea Dworkin

#19. All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

Blaise Pascal

#20. It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.

Don Van Vliet

#21. Someone can only be vampiric if you allow it.

Arca

#22. I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.

Jane Austen