Captain James Cook

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

“The captain was a duck
With a packet on his back,
And when the ship began to move
The captain said, Quack! Quack!”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I saw a ship a-sailing (l. 13–16)

“To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)