Cane Quotations

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.

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.

'Sugar Cane Alley' had a lot of international success, big success everywhere.

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.

When I was a girl, all we knew was this neighborhood, ... The beaches were ?whites only.? So Turkey Creek is where we went to fish, pick blackberries, recreate. Oftentimes you could see old people walking down to Turkey Creek with their cane poles in their hands. Churches had no pools inside for baptisms then?we all walked down to the creek and waited until the crowd got there.

We're going to start growing sugar cane over there.

What happens is that the cane gets toppled, then the stalks get twisted, and they'll have to use machines to carry out the harvest.

The plantations in the Hilo district enjoy special advantages, for by turning some of the innumerable mountain streams into flumes, the owners can bring a great part of their cane and all their wood for fuel down to the mills without other expense than the original cost of the woodwork.

I was walking about 35, 40 minutes after surgery. They gave me a cane to walk out on and I carried it. It was pretty amazing. I got a little swelling, but it doesn't bother me to walk or do anything. The only day I missed throwing was the day I had the surgery.

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.

We have very ambitious expansion plans. We are planting more sugar cane fields. We are building new factories. The prospects are just fantastic.

You don't need a walker up here and you don't need to worry about osteoporosis or a cane or anything like that, because you just float across the room,

We'd empty the cane press bucket into a kettle and cook it. What was left was syrup, and the foam off the top was rum.

We are certainly hoping that we cane make it through. The last month we have really pulled together to accomplish the goal of making it to the finals. In our minds, there is no reason we can't do that Saturday.

Brazil is ordering mills back to work early to crush cane to meet demand for ethanol. Harvesting cane early damages the yield, even without bad weather. Anything that happens to the Brazilian crop would be explosive.

There's no question that they hit the Louisiana farmers and the Florida farmers pretty hard. It knocked the cane over and inundated it with water.

I used my bat as a cane to get off the field. I took some slack for that.

Teenagers throwing baggies or bottles or even leaning out of the car window and swinging a cane at you,

Really? Going on stage with a cane and moving the way you do?

After cutting away its branches, its feet are bound together into bundles, and then, it is placed between the wooden rollers and crushed. What punishment is inflicted upon it! Its juice is extracted and placed in the cauldron; as it is heated, it groans and cries out. And then, the crushed cane is collected and burnt in the fire below. Nanak, come, people, and see how the sweet sugar-cane is treated!

A lot of people get around with canes and dogs, ... I've always been a dog lover, and to pick between an inanimate object like a cane and a dog, there was no question in my mind.

A lot of people don't give us credit for being mentally tough. At halftime, I was just like, 'Calm down. . . . Relax, and play Manatee Lady Cane ball. Don't play their ball.

As much as you want to get the water off your cane there's nothing you can do,

I had been working pretty hard up to the time of the trials of the cane press, and felt that I was entitled to a little relaxation.

The Cuban agricultural, conventional, 'Green Revolution' system never was able to feed the people. It had high yields, but was oriented to plantation agriculture. We exported citrus, tobacco, sugar cane and we imported the basic things. So the system, even in the good times, never fulfilled people's basic needs.