Queen Charlotte Islands

Famous quotes containing the words queen, charlotte and/or islands:

    “Most Gracious Queen, we thee implore
    To go away and sin no more,
    But if that effort be too great,
    To go away at any rate.”
    —Anonymous. “On Queen Caroline,” in Diary and Correspondence of Lord Colchester (1861)

    “Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon—we have the stars.”
    —Casey Robinson, screenwriter. Irving Rapper. Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis)

    “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)