Stars Traded

Famous quotes containing the words stars and/or traded:

“A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

“When we traded the buffalo for a mare,
we had no milk to drink,
and we still had droppings to clean up.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.