Cape Verdean Ancestry

Famous quotes containing the words cape and/or ancestry:

    “Wishing to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean, which, we are told, covers more than two thirds of the globe, but of which a man who lives a few miles inland may never see any trace, more than of another world, I made a visit to Cape Cod.... But having come so fresh to the sea, I have got but little salted.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)