Mother Ships

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or ships:

“Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!”
—John Gay (1685–1732)

“I saw three ships come sailing by,
Come sailing by, come sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .

Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)