Top 42 Trinidad's Quotes
#1. Trinidad's language is a fusion of English, African, and French, and so we have our own words and even our own dictionary. Steupse is a common local word, and it's the onomatopoeic word for the sound people make to show disapproval, or to show they are vexed, when they suck their teeth together.
Monique Roffey
#2. My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there. It's my favorite sound.
Meghan Trainor
#3. Behind your enemy's smile lies treachery. Show him that behind yours lies steel. Fail to do so, and you only make him bolder.
C.L. Wilson
#4. 2The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 3It was not with our fathers that the LORD made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today.
Anonymous
#5. One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card ... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
#6. You don't have to come from Trinidad to really love Harry Belafonte, you don't have to come from the West Coast to appreciate the simplicity and the beauty of the songs Kurt Cobain wrote.
Seth Avett
#7. I ain't know what it is to be a girl Mistress Grandsol. I pass straight from child to woman without even a pause for girl between. Girl is a privilege I never know.
Robert Antoni
#8. Reality is always separate from the ideal; but in Trinidad this fantasy is a form of masochism and is infinitely more cheating than the fantasy which makes the poor delight in films about rich or makes the English singer use and American accent.
V.S. Naipaul
#9. I grew up on the island, Trinidad to be exact, and I never thought it would be possible. These sort of things happen once in a lifetime. I just know God is bigger than me and everything I do is to serve and please Him.
Heather Headley
#10. I played a lot of the original 'Fight Night.' I think the depiction of Trinidad in the game was awesome.
Diego Corrales
#11. The Master's warning that we should not practice anything except self-detaching immersion.
Eugen Herrigel
#12. 'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.
Monique Roffey
#13. I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.
Peter Doig
#14. Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
V.S. Naipaul
#15. Attributed the decay of Hindu society in Trinidad to the rise of the timorous, weak, non-beating class of husband.
V.S. Naipaul
#16. Elrond was in his chair and the fire was on his face like summer-light upon the trees.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#17. She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim
Earl Lovelace
#18. The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in some other countries. But I wish I could borrow, like from Venezuela or Trinidad, the real love of color-blind people and bring it to America.
Michael Jackson
#20. Whether you think you will succeed or not, you are right.
Henry Ford
#21. My heart was burning for home. For a moment I felt like crying out, but at the moment of greater pain my mother's voice came back to me. It was as if she was here and talking, Stay and take an education, boy. Take it in, That's the main thing.
Michael Anthony
#22. But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat.
Trevor Baylis
#23. Ah, sahib. I know you just come to comfort a old man left to live by hisself. Soomintra say I too old-fashion. And Leela, she always by you. Why you don't sit down, sahib? It ain't dirty. Is just how it does look.'
Ganesh didn't sit down. 'Ramlogan, I come to buy over your taxis.
V.S. Naipaul
#24. I moved away for three years and went to Trinidad where I met my wife, Athena.
Mathias Rust
#25. When I was growing up, I grew up in church
my father was a pastor
so when I was growing up in Trinidad, I'd close all the windows in the church and go in the church every day after school and get a little microphone and pretend all these people were in the pews, and I would sing to them.
Heather Headley
#27. We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?
Jacque Fresco
#28. I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.
Lindsey Davis
#29. I knew I was playing with fire messing with J-Boy while I was still fuckin' around with Trinidad. Although Trinidad was still with my sister, he'd made it clear that he claimed my ass as his.
Porscha Sterling
#30. To be the first Puerto Rican to win a world title in four divisions would be an achievement. Gomez, Benitez, there have been a lot of good fighters from Puerto Rico before me. When I started boxing, Tito Trinidad was our big star.
Miguel Cotto
#32. I think 'Sex and the City' is a chapter that will never close. In a wonderful way, it's always going to be an open chapter because it seems like new generations discover the show and relate to it, which is amazing, and you can't hope for that.
Darren Star
#33. The Boov frowned. 'Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?
Adam Rex
#34. In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
V.S. Naipaul
#35. In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.
V.S. Naipaul
#36. I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
Rachel Platten
#38. It ate a party till someone ends up naked.
Lois Greiman
#39. Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.
Augustine Of Hippo
#40. I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.
Andrea McLean
#41. The din of loud voices and the clatter of cutlery on plates echoed from out of the double doors to the Great Hall. It seemed incredible to Harry that twenty feet away were people who were enjoying dinner, celebrating the end of exams, not a care in the world... p. 751
J.K. Rowling
#42. Some of our best fighters are not only Puerto Rican greats but all-time greats of the sport. Carlos Ortiz, Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez and Felix 'Tito' Trinidad and many others have made Puerto Rican boxing what it is today, and I am only an extension of their greatness.
Miguel Cotto
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