The United States Virgin Islands competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.
Famous quotes containing the words virgin, islands and/or summer:
“I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)
“One cannot speak of ice to summer insects nor talk about the sky to frogs in a well.”
—Chinese proverb.