Quotes About Sea Captains

#1. Florida sea captains might place a pineapple at the front door of their house to let everyone know that they had returned from a sea voyage and that the home was open to visitors. Many

James Kaserman

#2. We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. If you ask me what offices they may fill, I reply-any. I do not care what case you put; let them be sea captains, if you will.

Margaret Fuller

#3. Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas.

Kathryn Kuhlman

#4. HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. I have negotiated with cannibals in foreign tongues and Arabian sea captains and French criminals. I have bartered with demons and angels! I am not about to let a country doctor take advantage of me.

Mark Beauregard

#6. I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.

Gordon Lightfoot

#7. I had a hand fetish. His hands were big, probably beneficial for that stupid sport he played. His were the kind of hands that made wedding rings look sexy - tan with vein lines that ran like snaking rivers to his wrist and disappeared under his sleeves.

Tarryn Fisher

#8. New Rule: Someone has to tell Francesco Schettino that embracing a callous policy of "every man for himself" doesn't make you a sea captain. It makes you the Republican nominee.

Bill Maher

#9. The old sailors who traveled Earth's seas were said to have loved the ocean. The great captains said they were married to the sea or called the sea their mistress. Modern sailors held no such fantasies about outer space. Space did not love or hate, it simply killed anything it touched.

Steven L. Kent

#10. Where are the fish, though?"
"In the sea they say, in the boats we pray," said Dan, quoting a fisherman's proverb.

Rudyard Kipling

#11. Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.

Karen Marie Moning

#12. Well I know I am ugly and cannot be loved -

Pearl S. Buck

#13. Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.

Daniel Kahneman

#14. She is ugly, thought Konstantin, and then wondered at himself. What was it to him if a girl was ugly?

Katherine Arden

#15. Give her books, where other people did all the running around and courting; it was far easier to read about such matters than to experience them herself.

Sophie Dash

#16. The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. The one who fingered me like he was digging to China

Kresley Cole