Famous quotes containing the words island, command, greenland and/or winter:
“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)
“We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“The sky seemed so small that winter day,
A dirty light on a lifeless world,
Contracted like a withered stick.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)