Famous quotes containing the word paid:
“Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
“When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded them as another man’s slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.”
—Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835–1930)
“Mah sweat is done paid for this house and Ah reckon Ah kin keep on sweatin’ in it.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)