In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony… — Allan Sherman Copy Share Image
[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I’m from the health department. You’ve heard of Typhoid Mary? This fella’s got enough typhoid to start his own colony. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not. — June Callwood Copy Share Image
I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world.… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“some British settlers of colonial America carried across the sea Puritan, biblical, scientific, and Aristotelian rationalizations of slavery and human hierarchy.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people. — Diane Ladd Copy Share Image
I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle… — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Ants are so little but they build a big colony, what can then stop us from building a big peaceful city? If… — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi Copy Share Image
There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
So that's our new flag. The thing we've been fighting for-thirteen stripes for the colonies and thirteen stars in a circle for… — Lamar Trotti Copy Share Image
If people of India can reach Mars with minimal expenditure, why can they not keep their streets and colonies clean. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“The most important reason I am concentrating on Winthrop and his shipmates in the 1630s is that the country I live in… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
The world of 'Terra Nova' as we joined it... there is a certain amount of prosperity there, and in fact I would… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that.… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and… — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Copy Share Image
But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It was on this day that the Bahamas declared independence. Before that they were a British colony. The British Empire lost Canada… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
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