Black Sailors

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or sailors:

    Street lamps come out, and lean at corners, awry,
    Casting black shadows, oblique and intense....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    Why need Christians be still intolerant and superstitious? The simple-minded sailors were unwilling to cast overboard Jonah at his own request.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)