Heard Island

Famous quotes containing the words heard and/or island:

“Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“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)