Mount Captain Commands

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

    “My name shall mount upon Eternitie.”
    —Michael Drayton (1563–1631)

    “The captain was a duck
    With a packet on his back,
    And when the ship began to move
    The captain said, Quack! Quack!”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I saw a ship a-sailing (l. 13–16)

    “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)