Barbados Quotes
Toasts, memories, and melody from the island.
A toast to Banks beer and Barbados justice opens this set, followed by memories of flying there freely back when money was no object.
I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.
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You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a...
Beer Quotes
My father was an airline pilot, so we travelled more spontaneously than a lot of families. On a Thursday, we could decide to go somewhere like Barbados the next day for a long weekend.
In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crown'.
Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a thriving British colonial port.
Obama might as well be president of Turkey or Brazil; it does not matter. It's the system that is absolutely flawed, where 25 or 35 or 50 people make multi, multi-billions on building Olympic structures while people live in Barbados...
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The island's speech gets its own praise for its distinct melody, while a quieter line traces one family's emigration from Barbados in the late 1950s and early '60s.
