Colony Quote by Mohsin Hamid Download Open image ““...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony...”” — Mohsin Hamid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Colony
“She'd never thought of it as a colony. Instead it had been invaded, occupied, enslaved. She supposed colonized was more palatable to those who'd… — Meljean Brook Copy Share Image
“If you know the country he said then you will be a wild colonial boy forever” — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“I am in a country which is five hours behind my beloved homeland Pakistan and my home in the Swat Valley.” — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?” — Ambeth Ocampo Copy Share Image
“The British are a peculiar race. My grandfather was transported to Malaya because they needed tin, and yet I’ve never once met a Briton… — Zen Cho Copy Share Image
“I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in its institutions.” — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“the people in this country who feel most like foreigners to each other are English people who’ve just arrived and the ones who have… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“We Pashtuns are split between Pakistan and Afghanistan and don’t really recognize the border that the British drew more than 100 years ago.” — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack in a… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Often, during my stay in your country, such comparisons troubled me. In fact, they did more than trouble me: they made me resentful. Four… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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