Black Sailors

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or sailors:

    I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
    What hours, O what black hours we have spent
    This night!
    Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and then there is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)