Plantations Quotes

Quotations list about plantations, cane and coconut citing Billie Holiday, William Bell and Charles E. Merrill

  • You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

    — Billie Holiday
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  • We worked over at that place The Plantation Inn with The Del Rios. It was really wild over there.

    — William Bell
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  • If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once.

    — Charles E. Merrill
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  • I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

    — Harriet Ann Jacobs
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  • If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

    — Harriet Ann Jacobs
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  • The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

    — Bill Gates
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  • My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

    — Dolly Parton
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  • All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation;

    and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

    — John Woolman
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  • My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

    — Julie Christie
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