Colony Quotes

160 Colony quotes by 137 unique authors

My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These… — Edmund Burke
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be… — Benjamin Franklin
If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the… — Winston Churchill
I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove… — Sarah Vowell
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism… — Edmund Burke
The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign… — John Sergeant Wise
In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other respects, could export… — George Mikes
A team of British lawyers has now concluded that the Declaration of Independence was illegal, and the American colonies had no right to secede from… — Jay Leno
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies. — Bertrand Russell
Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin. — Pee Wee Reese
A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa.… — Mahatma Gandhi
Brooke Berman's voice is utterly distinct, and her book, detailing her nomadic artist's journey toward both a successful playwriting career and a home of her… — Maria Dahvana Headley
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world. — Allan Sherman
The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement,… — Buzz Aldrin
We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is… — Marcel Proust
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police. — Langston Hughes
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country. — Gertrude Stein
I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle had been there… — Matthew Rhys
The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its… — Charles Sturt
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification… — Amy Waldman
In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance… — Paul Davies
I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key.… — David Cronenberg
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in… — Albert Claude
When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when… — Iris Chang
The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, -… — Albert Bushnell Hart

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