Parenting Quote by Arundhati Roy

“He waited at her side, staring... hovering. She had the distinct impression this man wasn't used to being disobeyed. My, but he was an…

— Madison Thorne Grey

“No mother should outlive her children, and no captain should outlive his ship.”

— George R.R. Martin

Would you, do you, my dear?" rejoined the Captain ... "I don't know. It's difficult navigation. She's very hard to carry on with, my…

— Charles Dickens

“But in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that…

— Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson

“You have to tell this ship to turn around!" He had a feeling she was serious, so he managed not to laugh. Well,he tried-and…

— Johanna Lindsey

“and everything generally made shipshape, which seemed a desirable state of affairs, given that we were in fact aboard a ship.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were all untrue, were…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Papa was right, after all. A ship's crew was like a family, and together we had done what we never could have managed alone.”

— Heather Vogel Frederick

“It was like the engineer had broken some code of the sea that said you must assist pirates in taking over your ship.”

— Richard Phillips

“All he asked of her was basic civility and an ounce of propriety, but she was like one of her sea creatures, goaded by…

— Anonymous

“He seemed a little uneasy, and he welcomed me with something of the gratitude of the shipwrecked mariner who sights a sail.”

— P G Wodehouse

“When the sea is calm, every ship has a good captain.”

— Swedish Proverb