Sugar Cane Quotes:

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

source: Lady Sings the Blues ch. 11 (1956).

topic: Hair, White, Black History, Plantations, Sugar Cane

Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

- Tom Waits

source: "Tom Waits Spills the Beans to Tom Waits". Interview with Joan Anderman, www.boston.com. May 22, 2008.

topic: Reality, Men, Imagination, Sugar Cane, Bulbs

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

- Diane Abbott

topic: Cutting, Sugar, Owners, Sugar Cane

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

- Charlie Chaplin

source: "Charlie Chaplin and the Tramp: the birth of a hero" by Pamela Hutchinson, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2014.

topic: Shoes, Pants, Hats, Sugar Cane, Derby

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.

- Wilhelm Ostwald

topic: Order, Water, Sugar, Sugar Cane, Pure Water

I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!

- Rudyard Kipling

source: Rudyard Kipling (1993). “The Jungle Book”, p.140, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Morning, Lost Love, Kissing, Sugar Cane

Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

topic: Cutting, Golf, Hot, Hotter, Sugar Cane

To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any existence whatever. It is unreal, incredible, and insignificant to him, and for him to endeavor to extract the truth from such lean material is like making sugar from linen rags, when sugar-cane may be had.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.91, Xist Publishing

topic: Government, Political, Rags, Linen, Sugar Cane