My father is from the West Indies, the St. Thomas Virgin Islands. — Stephen A. Smith Copy Share Image
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I grew up at a time when West Indies dominated the world. For 15 years from 1980, the West Indies never lost… — Brian Lara Copy Share Image
England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe. — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
How can you disrespect the West Indies when we were so dominant in world cricket for so long? We have to face… — Chris Gayle Copy Share Image
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
After accepting the captaincy at the beginning of the 1998 season, I immediately set high but attainable goals for the West Indies… — Brian Lara Copy Share Image
Clearly the West Indies are going to play their normal game, which is what they normally do — Tony Greig Copy Share Image
Well, I think that I pretty much grew up grow up wanting to represent the West Indies. — Brian Lara Copy Share Image
We West Indian cricketers are always proud to play for the West Indies and we know we are made up of different… — Brian Lara Copy Share Image
The West Indies team I played for in the 1970s and 80s was truly blessed to have so many brilliant individuals in… — Viv Richards Copy Share Image
I loved every minute of my 17-year career, all the Test matches, the ODIs and the World Cups. The only disappointment, if… — Brian Lara Copy Share Image
My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
What is taught in schools generally in the West Indies is that if something is your thing, it's better than anybody else's… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
It is going to be difficult for the West Indies to get back to the top, but we got to start somewhere,… — Fidel Edwards Copy Share Image
To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
Had the Holocaust happened in Tahiti or the Congo, as it has; had it happened in South America, as it has; had… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I took another road, past the old sugar works and the water wheel that had not turned for years. I went to… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he is not much inclined to believe in it. This comes from… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
I don't have any complaints. I cannot say I miss playing for the West Indies that much. — Fidel Edwards Copy Share Image
When I played cricket for the West Indies, I never worried. I never really watched anyone else. I had a job to… — Garfield Sobers Copy Share Image
My immediate family are from the West Indies - from Trinidad and Grenada - and I have relatives all over the Caribbean. — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
England has some very good cricketers. And don't rule West Indies out. They have some explosive players. — Sourav Ganguly Copy Share Image
Until we can get people who are willing to play for West Indies in the right way, I think that we're going… — Garfield Sobers Copy Share Image
I am thankful that I played the game at a time when the West Indies climbed to heights that have never been… — Viv Richards Copy Share Image
My whole obligation was to West Indies cricket. As I have always said, 'I have never made a run for me.' — Garfield Sobers Copy Share Image
Cricket is my life and it has been since the age of five so the first opportunity I get, I'll be back… — Brian Lara Copy Share Image
It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
I met someone in the West Indies who was not able to walk. I put my hands on him and he was… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been… — Bill Cowher Copy Share Image
