Top 22 Quotes About Captain Cook
#1. You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!
Robert Louis Stevenson
#2. One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.
Joseph Jacobs
#3. It is such an agreeable feeling to be busy with something one is only half-competent to do that nobody should criticize the dilettante for taking up an art he will never learn, or blame the artist who leaves the territory of his own art for the pleasure of trying himself in a neighbouring one.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#4. One of the best things about reading comic books, when you're a kid or an adult, is watching the characters cross-over. What happens in one book affects the other, and these shows are so tightly knit that it feels like one giant show.
Andrew Kreisberg
#5. A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#6. If you make the most of what you are doing, there is no way to regret what you are doing.
Tom Sileo
#7. Any comedic entertainment is better when you get high.
Doug Benson
#8. ground-nuts to keep you alive till I return. If any of you do not know how to clean and cook them, Captain Grant will show you. I promise you I will have all the food you want at this place
Michael Joseph Canavan
#9. A victim is someone who blames it all on someone else. Why give all the power to someone else and leave yourself powerless?
Christina Moss
#10. Nicholas had not seen such a look of unwelcome surprise on his captain's face since the time their former cook announced he had served the crew stewed rat instead of salted beef.
Alexandra Bracken
#12. I spoke to a girl today who had cancer and we were talking about how this is such a hard thing for her, but it taught her a big lesson on who her friends are and so much about life. She's 18. And I was like, that's how I feel.
Kim Kardashian
#13. The gallant captain vacated his cabin for her, and Manna changed her role from cook to chaperone. All most correct. But it was hardly the done thing to cadge a lift on a torpedo boat. Yet she did it twice in a lifetime.
Mary Allsebrook
#14. We must remember that ours was intended to be a citizen government, and we must work together to restore our country and the character of our nation.
Carly Fiorina
#15. Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold,
And the mate of the Nancybrig,
And a bos'sun tight, and a midshipmite,
And the crew of the captain's gig!
W.S. Gilbert
#16. ... yearn for halcyon days of yore".
John Green
#17. Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
Robert Ballard
#18. But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
Obie Trice
#19. Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
Umberto Eco
#20. The best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them
Charles Bukowski
#21. Teach them the shame that tells the lie, "I am unforgivable," when the truth is, "I feel unforgivable, but it was out of my control." Never let them switch those round right or The Adversary will liberate them in a heartbeat, like a bird flying from a cage.
Geoffrey Wood
#22. Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory.
Julie Murphy
