Famous quotes containing the word roumain:
“Experience is the cane of the blind.”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)
“As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)
“Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane of the grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening.”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)