Famous quotes containing the words destiny and/or islands:
“Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)