Captain James Cook

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

    “Now that I had heard a part of his history, he appeared singularly destitute,—a captain without any vessel, only a greatcoat! and that perhaps a borrowed one! Not even a dog followed him; only his title stuck to him.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it; and finally a soft sense of possession grows up and your visit becomes a perpetual love affair.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    “Even the cleverest housewife can’t cook without rice.”
    —Chinese proverb.