Sugar Mills

Famous quotes containing the words sugar mills, sugar and/or mills:

    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)

    ‘Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
    ‘You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.’
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
    —C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)