Indian Ocean Islands

Famous quotes containing the words indian, ocean and/or islands:

    We had not gone far before I was startled by seeing what I thought was an Indian encampment, covered with a red flag, on the bank, and exclaimed, “Camp!” to my comrades. I was slow to discover that it was a red maple changed by the frost.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    your old fashioned tirade—
    loving, rapid, merciless—
    breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head.
    Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    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)