Settlers Quotes

45 quotes by 40 authors

We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home. — John H. Vincent
I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite… — Lewis Nkosi
In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was… — Robert Burchfield
Cities are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to do with it.… — Will Rogers
The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian. — Jeff Goldblum
We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build… — Moshe Dayan
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers. — Arthur Erickson
American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The… — David Mamet
There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers. — Ahmed Yassin
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city… — Elwyn Brooks White
If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop, it is because… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular… — Albert Murray
When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable. — Alice Morse Earle
Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers.… — Bill Dedman
There is a board game called Settlers of Catan. That is what I play. I am so embarrassed. — Andrew Luck
It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers… — Paul Harris
After mature consideration it was unanimously agreed, that, to prevent as much as possible their attempting to return and molest the settlers that may be… — Charles Lawrence
One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought… — Albert Bushnell Hart
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the… — Albert Bushnell Hart

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