12 May 2017: Dubbed ‘Captain Coward’ by Italian media for abandoning ship in the middle of a rescue operation, former captain of the Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
In 2012 he ordered the massive cruise ship into shallow waters, where it ran aground and later capsized. 32 people died.
QuotaBillsI don't give a ship! - Unknown
Like ships that clash in the night. - Archie Bunker
Italy is a geographical expression. - Prince Metternich
Ships are expendable; the whales are not. - Paul Watson
I hope my ship comes in before my dock rots. - Unknown
BANG - A four-letter Italian word for good-bye. - Archie Bunker
Imported from a little town in Italy... Fresno. - Archie Bunker
Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. - Jonathan Winters
Tell the men to fire faster and not give up the ship. - Captain James Lawrence
Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest. - Jorge Luis Borges
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. - John Shedd
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. - Zora N Hurston
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire
I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport. - Charles Schulz
An entire ocean can't sink a ship unless it allows the water inside. - Donna Smith
After the ship has sunk, a consultant knows how it might have been saved. - Newt Hielscher
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov
When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think they're going? - Douglas Gauck
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the towers of Ilium? - Christopher Marlowe
To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German. - Emperor Charles V
If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. - Sheryl Sandberg
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. - Epictetus
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. - Thomas Carlyle
That's how ya got your Chinatown, your Harlems, your Little Italy... all them grettos. - Archie Bunker
When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship. - Sadie Jones
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. - Thomas Aquinas
No one would have ever crossed the ocean if they could have gotten off the ship in the storm. - Charles F. Ketterling
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later, you're hungry again. - George Miller
It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. - Bertrand Russell
I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day. - Tamara Tunie
Oh my. Space travel sounds rather perilous. I can assure you they will never get me on one of those dreadful Star Ships. - C-3PO
Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it. - Camren Bicondova
It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy. - Nicolas Cage
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. - Leonardo da Vinci
You know that ISIS wants to go in and take over the Vatican? You have heard that. You know, that's a dream of theirs, to go into Italy. - Donald Trump
The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood. - Mark Helprin