Whaling Stations

Famous quotes containing the words whaling and/or stations:

    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 only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.
    William Jones (1746–1794)