Mount Captain Commands

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

    “But mount to paradise
    By the stairway of surprise.””
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “They have to prove their superiority every day. It’s their one tremendous weakness.”
    —Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. Captain Shepard (Kenneth More)

    “I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)