Captain James Cook

Famous quotes containing the words captain, james and/or cook:

    If something isn’t saved, then what’s it all for?
    —Sydney Pollack. Captain Beckman (Patrick O’Neal)

    And she straiked me three times o’er her knee;
    She changed me again to my ain proper shape,
    And I nae mair maun toddle about the tree.
    —Unknown. Alison Gross. . .

    Oxford Book of Ballads, The. James Kinsley, ed. (1969)

    From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth; but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but with the necessary conveniences so much sought after in Europe; they are happy in not knowing the use of them.
    James, Captain Cook (1728–1779)