Famous quotes containing the words sugar cane, sugar and/or cane:
“There is no sugar cane that is sweet at both ends.”
—Chinese proverb.
“They give us a pair of cloth shorts twice a year for all our clothing. When we work in the sugar mills and catch our finger in the millstone, they cut off our hand; when we try to run away, they cut off our leg: both things have happened to me. It is at this price that you eat sugar in Europe.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“Old rockin’ chair’s got me, cane by my side;”
—Hoagy Carmichael (1899–1981)