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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.


Kamisese Mara

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RACHEL ROBERTS The cane itself works the same as a traditional white cane. You use the same principles getting arou...
LEROY WOLF You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for mile...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Experience is the cane of the blind.
JACQUES ROUMAIN You can be up to your boobies in
white satin, with gardenias in your hair
and no sugar c...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Really? Going on stage with a cane and moving the way you do?
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ITALO ESCRICH My cane is now of me. I want it by my side. And I always will, even if one strange day I no longer n...
JOSHUA PRAGER We're going to start growing sugar cane over there.
GASTON CANTENS I'm not able to move hardly at all. But if I use this cane and I have an obstacle, I can step over i...
MIKE TUCKER The problem is that remittances [from the United States] have made Salvadorans comfortable, and they...
ITALO ESCRICH I want to be an old lady, with my cane, shouting, 'Action!' and 'Cut!'
AVA DUVERNAY We have very ambitious expansion plans. We are planting more sugar cane fields. We are building new ...
EDUARDO CARVALHO What happens is that the cane gets toppled, then the stalks get twisted, and they'll have to use mac...
JUDITH GANES For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.
ANNETTE FUNICELLO You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet
CHINESE PROVERBS To drink a cup of tea and put two sugars in and open a door and answer a telephone becomes incredibl...
HUGH LAURIE The infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane.
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NICK KROLL I use Lee Tran's van service, my cane, and there are friends who call, see if I need anything. Peopl...
JANET RAY Greater cane does not make greater humans. (Une plus grande canne - N'agrandit l'homme.)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE I have learned to delegate.
GWEN STEFANI It's like pretending to be Santa and then stabbing someone with a candy cane!
ELLERY ADAMS 'Sugar Cane Alley' had a lot of international success, big success everywhere.
EUZHAN PALCY "The Shepherd’s Crook, symbolized by the Candy Cane has great meaning. It's Symbolic of the Savior...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
MILES DAVIS That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clut...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN It's simply brilliant because it's brilliantly simple.
TONY CANE-HONEYSETT Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's lif...
DICK CLARK As much as you want to get the water off your cane there's nothing you can do,
GREGORY RODRIGUEZ Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
DEYTH BANGER You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
CASEY STENGEL A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, A ring, two watches, and a snuff box gilt.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Basically he's using his beak as a blind person uses a cane to find his way around.
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ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU I really have a distaste for poets who announce themselves at 50 yards; you know, here he comes, you...
BILLY COLLINS Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancin...
CECELIA AHERN I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradictio...
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TOM WAITS King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle&...
LLOYD ALEXANDER We've cut too much sugar cane, we've picked too much cotton, we've died too young, ... Don't give up...
JESSE JACKSON Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!
DICK CLARK There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. S...
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YOLANDA KING For my prom, I wore a white suit with a burgundy shirt, tie and cummerbund, along with white shoes, ...
NE-YO A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
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RICHARD H. DAVIS My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind m...
TOM WAITS I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD I have learned to be patient.
YUAN YUAN TAN I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
WALT WHITMAN I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
VINCENT CASSEL I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
DANA BRUNETTI I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I have a dream today
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, an...
ISABELLA BIRD We'd empty the cane press bucket into a kettle and cook it. What was left was syrup, and the foam of...
HOWARD BELLAMY There's no question that they hit the Louisiana farmers and the Florida farmers pretty hard. It knoc...
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FLO BRAZUKAS A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Humble is the grass in the field, yet it has noble relations. All the bread grains are grass - wheat...
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY The sun was shining in my eyes, and I could barely see to do the necessary task that was allotted me...
EARL MUSSELMAN If the constitution goes, I go.
KAMISESE MARA It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final t...
KAMISESE MARA And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.
KAMISESE MARA I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Ch...
KAMISESE MARA He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in a...
KAMISESE MARA I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I ...
KAMISESE MARA I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.
KAMISESE MARA The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.
KAMISESE MARA I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of ...
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KAMISESE MARA I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I ...
KAMISESE MARA How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?
KAMISESE MARA Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
KAMISESE MARA Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
KAMISESE MARA Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the c...
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KAMISESE MARA I had a request today from Mr. Speight for him to come and see me,
KAMISESE MARA That I will not be able to oblige,
KAMISESE MARA We are going to face not only purgatory, but hell,
KAMISESE MARA the position of the indigenous community will be protected and enhanced.
KAMISESE MARA not in accordance with the constitution and ... therefore unlawful.
KAMISESE MARA We will have a dialogue and see what they offer, ... I cannot say I will put back the government tha...
KAMISESE MARA We are certainly hoping that we cane make it through. The last month we have really pulled together ...
KRISTI LAFLEUR Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
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MO UDALL I have learned how to plant coastal hay, fertilize and bale it.
JANINE TURNER I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
HUMPHRY DAVY Who am I?? No, No you don't ask the questions I ask them my question is how much stupid are you??......
DEYTH BANGER It was what we call a sword cane, ... She was unaware of it. She told us that she had bought it at a...
STUART ANDERSON A lot of people get around with canes and dogs, ... I've always been a dog lover, and to pick betwee...
CLAIRE GILBERT There are so many commodities in the affected areas, like rice, cotton, sugar cane, cattle and chick...
MIKE JOHANNS It's similar to doing an elliptical trainer that has handles. You're exercising your whole body, not...
DR. A. HERBERT ALEXANDER Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.
and
Just because you don't...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS

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