Green Islands

Famous quotes containing the words green and/or islands:

“Who are the violets now
That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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)