Sugar Land Annexed

Famous quotes containing the words sugar and/or land:

“There is no sugar cane that is sweet at both ends.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The first day that we landed upon that fatal shore
The planters they came round us full twenty score or more,
They rank’d us up like horses, and sold us out of hand
Then yok’d us unto ploughs, my boys, to plow Van
Dieman’s Land.”
—Unknown. Van Dieman’s Land (l. 9–12)