List of Caribbean-related Topics - United States Virgin Islands

Famous quotes containing the words united states, united, states, virgin and/or islands:

“When, in some obscure country town, the farmers come together to a special town meeting, to express their opinion on some subject which is vexing to the land, that, I think, is the true Congress, and the most respectable one that is ever assembled in the United States.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.”
—Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)

“... there is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have fought and bled and died, like men, to make this country what it is. And if they have got to suffer and die, and be lynched, and tortured, and burned at the stake, I say they are at home.”
—Amanda Berry Smith (1837–1915)

“Sir Charles: Are you?
Princess Dala: What?
Sir Charles: What they call you—the Virgin Queen?
Princess Dala: I’m not a queen.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)

“What are the islands to me
if you are lost
what is Naxos, Tinos, Andros,
and Delos, the clasp
of the white necklace?”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)