Mount Captain Commands

Famous quotes containing the words mount, captain and/or commands:

    “A land of meanness, sophistry and mist.
    Each breeze from foggy mount and marshy plain
    Dilutes with drivel every drizzly brain.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “I think there’s a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.”
    —Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. Captain Shepard (Kenneth More)

    “How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)