Bald Head Island

Famous quotes containing the words bald head, bald, head and/or island:

“It was a transmogrifying bee
Came droning down on Chucky’s old bald head
And sat and put the poison. It scarcely bled,”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

“hopes dance best on bald men’s hair”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)

“It is better to be the head of the chicken than the tail of an ox.”
—Chinese proverb.

“For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)