Madeira Islands

Famous quotes containing the words madeira and/or islands:

“In this world of overrated pleasures,
Of underrated treasures.”
—Paul Madeira (b. 1904)

“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)