Caribbean Quote by Cristina García Download Open image ““In Cuba, everything seemed temporal, distorted by the sun.”” — Cristina García ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Caribbean Cuba Time Tropical
“the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The sun and time.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“....the sun was still marking the passage of the first bright hour in a history that was not destined to be all so bright.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“No one could have imagined a place like Havana, Cuba. It is absurdly contradictory, always arguing with itself over whether it is audacious or… — Ed Kirwan Copy Share Image
“The sun burnt everyday. It burnt time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time” — Pedro Juan Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
“Yet I do not believe that the world about us will ever again be as it was of old, or the light of the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Everything used to revolve around the sun; now I knew it all revolved around me-slowly, blissfully, squinting its eyes.” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“It was like the arrival of night when you knew that you would never see anything in daylight again.” — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.” — Cristina García Copy Share Image
“I become convinced that you have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.” — Cristina García Copy Share Image
“Jan-Peter offered to teach me the language of Amsterdam's red light district. ...But after his first phrase--'Using the back door will cost you double'--I… — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence. — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
“Felicia stayed on the fringe of life because it was free of everyday malice. It was more dignified there.” — Cristina García Copy Share Image
Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll live forever. But… — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
“She ponders the transmigrations from southern latitudes. the millions moving north. What happens to their languages? The warm burial grounds they leave behind? What… — Cristina García Copy Share Image
“Down the street, the trees are imprisoned equidistantly in square plots of dirt. Everything else is concrete. Lourdes remembers reading somewhere about how Dutch… — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
“For many years in Cuba, nobody spoke of the problem between blacks and whites. It was considered too disagreeable to discuss. But my father… — Cristina García Copy Share Image
“I imagine these men sitting in fashion control centers around the world thinking of new ways to torture women, new ways to make them… — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
“I say, ‘Man, you best behave youself this time, cause we ain’t never getting this mattress out from in here.’ … Berry say, ‘Don’t… — Robert Antoni Copy Share Image
“The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.” — Cristina García Copy Share Image
I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very different experience… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me. — Rihanna Copy Share Image
The Stroke Association has produced leaflets that set out clearly the health risks associated with stroke that African-Caribbean people face. — Linford Christie Copy Share Image
Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re not here—… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I have a brother who's six years older than me and we only ever watched stuff that he wanted to watch - 'Lord of… — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family. — Jourdan Dunn Copy Share Image
Every time you hear anyone talk about the Caribbean, whether it's Caribbeans themselves or people outside, there's always talk about women's bodies. Talk about… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I have wrestled gators in Florida. I have sailed the ocean with Ted Turner. I have swam the oceans in the Caribbean. — Craig Sager Copy Share Image
In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
