Ship Captain Quotes

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.

When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false.

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever by walking to the bank at Greenwich to get the money to which my father's letter of credit entitled me. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France, whose name was a common one, John Smith, took particular charge of me, removed me to Morristown, N. J., and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies who kept a boarding - house. To their skilful and untiring ministrations I may safely say I owe the prolongation of my life.

Gazzy: "Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.

I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am.

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense he resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. He must sooner or later be convinced that a perpetual calm is as little to his purpose as a perpetual hurricane, and that without headway the ship can arrive nowhere.

It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.

Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.

I am not a man of the sea.

A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

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.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.

What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.