Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“In the early 1600s, for nearly two decades, Virginia and Bermuda were the only English colonies in the New World. Here, for the first…

— Virginia Bernhard

“I'm sure I still have boundaries-like the continental U.S, for example.”

— Stephenie Meyer

“What was England, before Wolsey? A little offshore island, poor and cold.”

— Hilary Mantel

“...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony...”

— Mohsin Hamid

“Yes, I once was the toast of two continents! (...Greenland & Australia).”

— Dorothy Parker

“All of Europe, as far as we knew, was gone. It might as well not be there anymore. Russia was gone. By the time…

— David Wellington

“It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between.”

— Diane Ackerman

“Until they became the British Empire’s greatest voyagers, indeed its greatest export, settling in odd places all around the world. And for that splinter…

— James Webb

“Did the continents, I wondered, feel lonely for each other as they drifted apart eons ago?”

— Cidney Swanson

I like Tom Wolfe's description of the country: There's America. The coasts are like the parentheses. In between is the country.

— Laura Ingraham

“Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out…

— Tahir Shah

“under the same cross that Christopher Columbus’s three caravels crossed the Atlantic to the New World.”

— Michael Baigent