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Sugar Cane Alley' had a lot of international success, big success everywhere. -- Euzhan Palcy
The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane. -- Joseph Addison
Francois Truffaut was my godfather on 'Sugar Cane Alley.' He believed in me and in that story, and told everyone that it should be made. -- Euzhan Palcy
Experience is the cane of the blind. -- Jacques Roumain
I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have. -- Kamisese Mara
For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not. -- Annette Funicello
Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life! -- Dick Clark
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. -- Diane Abbott
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. -- Miles Davis
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. -- Tom Waits
My cane is now of me. I want it by my side. And I always will, even if one strange day I no longer need its support. -- Joshua Prager
King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur. -- Lloyd Alexander
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
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
For my prom, I wore a white suit with a burgundy shirt, tie and cummerbund, along with white shoes, a white trilby and a cane. I was extra fly that day. -- Ne-Yo
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
That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. -- Charlie Chaplin
I really have a distaste for poets who announce themselves at 50 yards; you know, here he comes, you know, with the beret and the cane and the cape and the whatever - whatever mishegas is part of the outfit there. -- Billy Collins
You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time. -- Richard H. Davis
I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award. -- Richard Carmona
A legend is an old man with a cane... -- Miles Davis
If love is blind I guess I'll buy myself a cane -- Axl Rose
I'm just like a giant candy cane, the ladies want to lick me all over. -- Raven
You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane. -- Casey Stengel
The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.] -- Ovid
some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds. -- Jean Toomer
God comes to us in the things we know best and cane verify most easily, the things of our everyday life. -- Pope John Paul II
From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet. -- Rumi
Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get home. -- W. C. Fields
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
No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it. -- Harrison Ford
I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice. -- Stanley Kubrick
O singers, resinous and soft your songsAbove the sacred whisper of the pines,Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs. -- Jean Toomer
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
Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler. -- Henry David Thoreau
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
A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage. -- Suzanne Collins
There is honey in this land sweeter than any I know of, and I have cut cane in places where the dirt itself tasted like sugar, so that's saying a heap. -- Toni Morrison
Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise -- Cecelia Ahern
Hey, if you decided to tear up the town, you can always use the leftover bread from my breakfast in place of your cane. I'm pretty sure it's hard enough to bust heads. -- Jennifer Rardin
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners. -- Daniel Boone
she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others. -- Milan Kundera

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