Quotes About Grenada

#1. Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

Max Irons

#2. Let memories of your own hometown flow back to you as you read this fascinating story, "A Place called Gouyave," about the author's recollection of the characters, stories and the lessons learnt in his hometown during his youth on the Caribbean island of Grenada.

Collis Decoteau

#3. The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.

William Cohen

#4. My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.

Estelle

#5. It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

Ronald Reagan

#6. When I wrapped 'Falling Skies,' I took a trip to the Caribbean to visit my grandma, which is great. I was out there for two weeks in Grenada. Then after that, I went to Poland for two and a half weeks to go watch some of the European soccer championships.

Brandon Jay McLaren

#7. In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.

Stephen Kinzer

#8. Ifemelu and Jane laughed when they discovered how similar their childhoods in Grenada and Nigeria had been, with Enid Blyton books and Anglophile teachers and fathers who worshipped the BBC World Service.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#9. In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.

Alexander Dubcek

#10. The US has attacked countries like Grenada, Panama, Libya ... the list of victims of US terrorism is almost infinite. And the US government's participation in torture, whether in El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile ... is well-documented and widely known.

Assata Shakur

#11. Everything that ever was always will be, and everything that ever will be always was.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#12. I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations.

John Negroponte

#13. When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

Jesse Jackson

#14. We can invade everyone from Grenada to Afghanistan, but if anyone spills a drop of our blood, it's terrorism.

Paul Christopher

#15. Unprofessionalism damages the business reputation and tarnishes the trust of society.

Pearl Zhu

#16. Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

Douglas Davis

#17. Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.

Emmett Tyrrell

#18. Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.

Alan Cranston

#19. Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

David O. McKay