Hispaniola History Quotes & Sayings

Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains. — Jeffrey Rasley

I felt that people would criticize everything. I was so scared about playing Paris. I was very much aware that the greatest concerts my father and mother had done were there. I was sure people would be very tough. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican Republic for twenty-two years after 1804 for fear that the French and Spanish would come back and reinstitute slavery. So we have this unique situation of being two independent nations on the same island, but with each community having its own grievance. — Edwidge Danticat

I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [ ... ] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian Question and no Indian Department. — Duncan Campbell Scott

It goes like this: teaching is touching life — Jaime Escalante

If worries were warts, I'd be a toad! — Emily Nelson

I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money. — Dwayne Johnson

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Those things that are most beneficial to us generally are. But they are also worth the effort. — Kim Vogel Sawyer

Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever? — William S. Burroughs

I could have beat Obama. — John Catsimatidis