Whaling Nations

Famous quotes containing the words whaling and/or nations:

    The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that city’s whaling fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.
    —For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
    Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)