- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hear People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 voluble language, very active, very swift, very sharp.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Crown
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crown'.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a thriving British colonial port.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020