Century Fishing Plantation

Famous quotes containing the words century, fishing and/or plantation:

“Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

“Once fishing was a rabbit’s foot—
O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot,”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.”
—Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1909–1989)