Black Ball Line or Blackball Line may refer to:
- Black Ball Line (trans-Atlantic packet), a fleet of packet ships running between Liverpool and New York, the first scheduled trans-Atlantic service, founded in 1817
- Black Ball Line, a fleet of packet ships running between Liverpool and Australia owned by James Baines & Co., founded in 1852
- Puget Sound Navigation Company, a fleet of ferries on Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia and Washington known as the Black Ball Line
Famous quotes containing the words black, ball and/or line:
“Richard. Give me a calendar.
Who saw the sun today?
Ratcliffe. Not I, my lord.
Richard. Then he disdains to shine, for by the book
He should have braved the east an hour ago.
A black day will it be to somebody.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“You see much more of your children once they leave home.”
—Lucille Ball (1911–1989)
“Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.”
—Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)