Colony Quotes

160 Colony quotes by 137 unique authors

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists. — Orson Welles
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa,… — Martin Filler
Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the… — Fernando Pessoa
Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and… — Sue Monk Kidd
Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a… — Frantz Fanon
I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking… — Christopher Fowler
Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what’s inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food… — Chuck Palahniuk
America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted… — Malcolm X
The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new… — Howard Zinn
I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies. — Grant Morrison
There will be consequences for this, he thought. You can't alter time and not be affected. But whatever the consequences are, I will bear them,… — Eoin Colfer
Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at… — Fuyumi Ono
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
Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to… — Frantz Fanon
That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British… — Richard Henry Lee
While General Howe with a Large Armament is advancing towards New York, our Congress resolved to Declare the United Colonies free and Independent States. A… — Abraham Clark
I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the… — Bear Bryant
I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an… — Lewis Thomas
The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though… — Clay Shirky
Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It was the capital… — Mario Testino
Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist. This was the… — Shreya Ghoshal
I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was… — Imtiaz Ali
I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people. — Diane Ladd
Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony. — Blake Edwards
In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced. — Charles Sturt

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