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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.

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

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 a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.

Experience is the cane of the blind.

We are still looking for opportunities in plantation, in palm oil. When it is bad, you want to buy because, in the long term, I am confident that plantation is a good bet. To me, it is always in demand; there is no substitute yet for palm oil.

Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!

I grew up in a retirement community in Florida.