Roosevelt Island Tram

Famous quotes containing the words roosevelt and/or island:

“I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

“Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)