Guinea Quotes - Page 4

• When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money.

  Eric Idle

  Frost, Three, Week

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python’". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• All we want is to be treated like human beings, and not to be patronized, or experimented on like guinea pigs.

  Winona Ryder

  Pigs, Want, Treated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Wish, Realizing, Should

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• When I got on that plane, it was loaded with white people going to Africa for the Peace Corps. I got there and met a lot of them, and actually they had more peace there in Guinea than I have here. I talked to some of them. I told them before they would be able to clean up somebody else's house you would have to clean up yours; before they can tell somebody else how to run their country, why don't they do something here.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Running, Country, White

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Children, Intelligent, Years

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• The President of Guinea, Sekou Toure, came to see us on the 13th. Now you know, I don't know how you can compare this by me being able to see a President of a country when I have just been there two days; and here I have been in America, born in America, and I am 46 years pleading with the President for the last two to three years to just give us a chance-and this President in Guinea recognized us enough to talk to us.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Country, Years, Two

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• Now many things are beginning to come out and it was truly a reality to me when I went to Africa, to Guinea. The little things that had been taught to me about the African people, that they were "heathens," "savages," and they were just downright stupid people. But when I got to Guinea, we were greeted by the Government of Guinea, which is Black People - and we stayed at a place that was the government building, because we were the guests of the Government.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Stupid, Reality, Government

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• Mice and any rodentia. Guinea pigs. Even rabbits, I can't stand. Rabbits are cousins to rats. It's a class thing. If you had to grow up with rats scampering in your backyard, because the city services were cut in half and the population in your neighborhood doubled, then that also is going to mean that the flora and fauna are going to grow as well. So that's a part of it. That's why I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Country, Cousin, Growing Up

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• It's not that weird, but when I was in Peru, I ate a guinea pig. If you're going to eat guinea pig, you call it cuy. Cute word for such a cute little animal that I ate a few times.

  Nick Kroll

  Cute, Animal, Pigs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Not only have we paid the price with our names in ink, but we have also paid in blood. And they can't say that black people can't be intelligent, because going back to Africa, in Guinea, there are almost 4 million people there and what he, President [Sekou] Toure, is doing to educate the people: as long as the French people had it they weren't doing a thing that is being done now.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Intelligent, Blood, Names

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.

  Junot Diaz

  Pigs, People, Identity

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.
  Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.

  Jacques Roumain

  Taken, Sacrifice, Alcohol

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• The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Dog, Zoos, Taken

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• In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.

  David Bailey

  Feels, Cannibal, Relaxed

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• When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!

  Herman Melville

  Life, Country, Thinking

  1851 Captain Ahab. Moby Dick, ch.132.

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• If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Men, Pigs

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Coats, Poverty, Wealth

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.134

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• Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

  A. E. Housman

  Heart, Giving, Rubies

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 13

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• It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole guinea pig. But it is a whole tree and a whole guinea pig that have survived and evolved, and we must make the attempt.

  Gardner Murphy

  Science, Men, Pigs

  Gardner Murphy (1947). “Personality”

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• A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, School, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.392, Penguin

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• Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!" "Ragnor is not," Catarina said. "When he found out that you were feeding us guinea pigs, he hit you over the head with your plate. It broke." "So ended our love," Magnus said. "Ah, well. It would have never worked between me and the plate anyway.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flirting, Pigs, Trying

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked in chains: and this constant emigration, which, in the space of two centuries, might have furnished armies to overrun the globe, accuses the guilt of Europe and the weakness of Africa.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Army, Space

  Edward Gibbon (1870). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.119

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• One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls,
  When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops.
  He mocks the guinea, challenges
  The crow, inciting various modes.
  The sparrow requites one, without intent.

  Wallace Stevens

  Challenges, Crow, Gulls

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.233, Vintage

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• To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Husband, Writing, Years

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1026, Delphi Classics

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• My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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