Been Quote by Alice Morse Earle

Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

— Mitch Horowitz

In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial…

— Robert E. Howard

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

It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of…

— 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

“THE COLONIAL PERIOD”

— Charles A. Beard

The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.

— W. C. Fields

“...And although thus short, we shorten many ways, Living so little while we are alive; In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delight So unawares comes…

— Anne Bradstreet

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