Top Captain Quotes

  • She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale. – Stephen King

    She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.– Stephen King

  • The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew. – Patrick OBrian

    The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.– Patrick OBrian

  • When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves. – Karen Maezen Miller

    When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.– Karen Maezen Miller

  • Sometimes he was weird, sometimes he was Captain Douchebag, but he was always my best friend. – Sharon Sant

    Sometimes he was weird, sometimes he was Captain Douchebag, but he was always my best friend.– Sharon Sant

  • The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can’t do anything about the tides. – Matthew Norman

    The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can’t do anything about the tides.– Matthew Norman

  • Oh captain my captain – Walt Whitman

    Oh captain my captain– Walt Whitman

  • If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. – Thomas Aquinas

    If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.– Thomas Aquinas

  • I used to hate looking at my markings. But the captain taught me they don’t mean anything. Because I’m more than the sum of my mistakes. – Melissa Landers

    I used to hate looking at my markings. But the captain taught me they don’t mean anything. Because I’m more than the sum of my mistakes.– Melissa Landers

  • He was the subject of a little respectful ribbing. But he was, of course, the captain, which meant he had to do lots of the ribbing himself. – Geoff Dyer

    He was the subject of a little respectful ribbing. But he was, of course, the captain, which meant he had to do lots of the ribbing himself.– Geoff Dyer

  • Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipw – Guy de Maupassant

    Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipw– Guy de Maupassant