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
“Puritans used this doctrine when assessing Native American and African strangers, ensuring intolerance from the start in their land of tolerance.18 Beginning” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.” — Anonymous 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 first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to… — Peter Stuyvesant 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 [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
As far as actually setting up colonies of people who would live their whole lives in space, I think we're a long… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Brooke Berman's voice is utterly distinct, and her book, detailing her nomadic artist's journey toward both a successful playwriting career and a… — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
The more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant,… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys.… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
While General Howe with a Large Armament is advancing towards New York, our Congress resolved to Declare the United Colonies free and… — Abraham Clark Copy Share Image
On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were… — C. S. Lewis 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
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy.… — Leland Ryken 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
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
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
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
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
I repeat that superior races have a right [to establish colonies], because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize… — Jules Ferry Copy Share Image
It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians... who live… — George III Copy Share Image
The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways… — Frantz Fanon 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
[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
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
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
We live in the United States. British settlers founded the first colony in North America. And English is our language. — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I think we're a long ways from really putting colonies of people out there who would live their whole lives out there… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world, — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other… — Carlisle Floyd 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
“What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image