West Indies Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created…
— Bertrand Russell
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I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly…
— Harry Belafonte
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I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit…
— Melanie Brown
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Clearly the West Indies are going to play their normal game, which is what they normally do
— Tony Greig
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HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the…
— Ezra Stiles
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Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the…
— Walter Rodney
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When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt…
— Eva Zeisel
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I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine,…
— Brooke Burke
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Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't…
— Bill Cowher
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One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about…
— Ian Fleming
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I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort…
— Agatha Christie
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In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that Norsemen…
— Jon Stewart
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Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant…
— Alice Morse Earle
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England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
— Albert Bushnell Hart
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We spend cheese, in the West Indies. Then come home to plenty cream Bentleys.
— P Diddy
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Spent the night as a patient in the hospital. Seems I may have picked up Leptospirosis in the West Indies.This is just brutal.
— Dr Drew
Who Wrote These West Indies Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 West Indies Quotes as follows: