FastSaying

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.


Edwidge Danticat

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Is there some lesson on how to be friends?
I think what it means is that central to living
DAVID RAKOFF Ses’ach L’ru!” Came the slightly muffled chorus. This was Ruminarii for ‘Hail the Captain.�...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, i...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Sometimes, it's hard to tell people what to do.
ROBERT DAVIS I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - int...
HENRY FORD About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an i...
WILL ROGERS America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
WILL ROGERS I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
GARRISON KEILLOR America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstr...
BRUCE JACKSON We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our...
MARK TWAIN America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes i...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "Pres...
ALEXAI SAYLE You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL When good Americans die they go to Paris.
OSCAR WILDE I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on ...
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. ...
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
WILL ROGERS We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless y...
DAVE BARRY America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive...
AYN RAND We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From televi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do f...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it
BARBARA JORDAN The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM bigger than Andrew by a reasonable amount.
ROBERT DAVIS If he took the papers in... that, I'm afraid, is a very unwise thing for him to do and I do think th...
DAVID DAVIS What you're seeing in the East Wing is normal turnover, and what you're seeing in the West Wing is a...
DAVID R. GERGEN Only votes talk, everything else walks.
DAN RATHER There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.
JAMES T. FARRELL I know only two tunes: One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' and the other isn't.
ULYSSES S. GRANT Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and...
JESSE JACKSON [It was] America's scrapbook.
CHARLES A. WHITTINGHAM If the PM wants to answer a different question, that’s fine, and that’s a good answer to a differe...
GARY ACKERMAN Far from being tough on terror it may turn out to be a gift for the terrorists.
DAVID DAVIS The media is celebrity-driven. It's very frustrating because we've been fighting this for years now,...
GEORGE WEBER I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for Ameri...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives...the high ethical standards...
BILL CLINTON There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never me...
GORDON W. ALLPORT The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant
JOHN STEINBECK America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the sam...
JESSE JACKSON Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the...
WOODROW T. WILSON They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE!
STEPHANIE PERKINS St. Clair gets a crush on Anna. He's torn between her and Ellie, and he spends so much time running ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte]
SEX AND THE CITY When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill!
SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more.
SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne...
SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives.
SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca...
SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria]
SEX AND THE CITY I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ...
SEX AND THE CITY I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.
SEX AND THE CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY Maybe we should get married.[Charlotte] Alrighty.[Trey]
SEX AND THE CITY My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry abou...
SEX AND THE CITY Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story.
SEX AND THE CITY No lady likes to dance or dine, accompanied by a porcupine. Burma Shave.
SEX AND THE CITY I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS What's the big mystery? It's my vagina, not the sphinx! [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not relig...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS the lights fade to black.
SEX AND THE CITY Yeah, I would love to. I don't know if I'd do another singing one.
SEX AND THE CITY Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!"
SEX AND THE CITY F*** me badly once, shame on you. F*** me badly twice, shame on me.
SEX AND THE CITY Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni a...
SEX AND THE CITY

More Edwidge Danticat

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world ...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it wh...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens i...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time....
EDWIDGE DANTICAT To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.
EDWIDGE DANTICAT Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to gr...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people ...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are ve...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this peri...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT I want to look happily forward. I want to be optimistic. I want to have a dream. I want to live in j...
EDWIDGE DANTICAT