Colonial Quote by Alice Morse Earle

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

— Moby

Colonialism has a bad reputation in the modern context, but Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the…

— Jeff Cooper

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular,…

— Alice Morse Earle

The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots…

— Alice Morse Earle

The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists…

— Alice Morse Earle

There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New…

— Alice Morse Earle

We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller…

— Alice Morse Earle

The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far…

— Alice Morse Earle

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America,…

— Fidel Castro

“But what about the horses? Have they always had horses here? Captain Herris Serrano Probably. Colonial worlds usually have horses; they're cheap local transportation,self-replicating.…

— Ellen Dawn Benefield

I'll tell you what colonial experience is.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

“I am _not_ a woman from your village." His eyes narrowed. "No, you are not, for if you were, you would be grateful for…

— Pamela Clare

“One of the tragic ironies of the second half of the 20th century is that when colonies in the developing world freed themselves from…

— Steven Pinker

Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia into its…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

A colonial war is a very dirty kind of war. You're not fighting armed forces. You're fighting mostly unarmed people. And to fight that…

— Noam Chomsky