Famous quotes containing the words west india, west, india and/or dock:
“It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.”
—For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.”
—Rebecca West (18921983)
“India is an abstraction.... India is no more a political personality than Europe. India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.”
—Winston Churchill (18741965)
“Im mooring my rowboat
at the dock of the island called God.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)