Heat Island

Famous quotes containing the words heat and/or island:

    “Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
    But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.”
    —John Webster (1580–1625)

    “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)