Captain January Quotes

Capt. Nazro: In two days, January will be out of a job, and that's just what old Hatchet-Face has been waiting for.
Mary: Of course it is.
Capt. Nazro: Do you think I'm doing the right thing in sending for these folks?
Paul Roberts: You never did anything righter in your life.
Capt. Nazro: I hate to think of what January will do when he finds out.
Mary: Well, if someone doesn't come to take Star, Miss Morgan is going to have her way.
Capt. Nazro: But I don't even know anything about these Masons except what I read in Star's mother's album. They may not even be relatives.
Mary: Whoever they are, they're better for Star than an institution.
Paul Roberts: Certainly any instituion Miss Morgan would pick out.

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Capt. January: Can you prove that heat causes things to expand?
Helen: What's expand mean?
Capt. January: Get bigger. Can you prove that heat makes things get bigger?
Helen: Of course it makes things bigger. The days are longer in the summer, aren't they?
Capt. Nazro: I guess that's the answer, all right.

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Helen: It's a cake! Cap made himself!
Capt. Nazro: Really? Well then I guess I'll just eat the candles!

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Helen: Why do I have to do this?
Capt. January: All nice little girls sew samplers.
Helen: Well, it doesn't seem like anything I'll need in a sea-faring life.
Capt. January: That's where you're wrong, Star. A good sailor has to be able to steer a needle.

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Helen: My mother was very beautiful, wasn't she 'Cap?
Capt. January: Mighty pretty, Star, according to her pictures.
Helen: We're awfully lucky, aren't we?
Capt. January: Lucky?
Helen: I'd never have known what my mother looked like if it wasn't for that trunk. Did you swim out to get it, too?
Capt. January: No, it just washed ashore.

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