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
The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in… — Bear Bryant Copy Share Image
One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together. — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hollywood is the sort of town where you wake up in the morning and look out to see if it's still there.… — Pamela Moore Copy Share Image
There were four million people in the American Colonies and we had Jefferson and Franklin. Now we have over 200 million and… — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist.… — Shreya Ghoshal Copy Share Image
Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts — Brooks Robinson Copy Share Image
Australia is this former British colony at the foot of Asia. We've been involved - we've been in lockstep with America in… — Richard Glover Copy Share Image
By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow.… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
Now, after the material resources of the colonies have been looted, their spiritual and cultural resources are being transformed into commodities for… — Maria Mies Copy Share Image
I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
In the American colonies, the main problem of liberty has been solved, demonstrated and practiced in such a manner as not to… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
