Ghosts of the Titanic Quotes

“For every first-class dog that entered the lifeboats, twenty-nine steerage women and nineteen children died. Emily Badman and Kathy Gilnagh seemed destined to be counted among the lost, having found themselves penned in behind a drawn gate, deep within the stern. An armed, junior officer stood on the other side. "Following orders," he insisted. "It's not time for you to go up.”
― Charles Pellegrino, Ghosts of the Titanic

“So much learning," one of my Jesuit teachers has said, "so little wisdom." To put it another way, a civilization does become more technologically skilled and more learned about science, and perhaps even a little smarter as well, when it is permitted to grow for hundreds of years and spread itself from pole to pole; but we also have more tools to turn out as badly as our ancestors said we might.”
― Charles Pellegrino, Ghosts of the Titanic

“Watching that great ship fly up, and up, and up against the night was an awakening, a vivid flash of something like God, something more powerful than nature itself. And it is us. And we know. We who have seen.”
― Charles Pellegrino, Ghosts of the Titanic

“Sometimes she makes you very sad....she touches something in you, and you've begun to touch back. - Bob Ballard”
― Charles Pellegrino, Ghosts of the Titanic