Colonial Quote by Peter Carey Download Open image ““If you know the country he said then you will be a wild colonial boy forever”” — Peter Carey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boy Forever Colonial Colonial Boy Country Said Patriotism Wild Colonial
“Even though he'd been born into a country unshackling itself from its colonial masters, even though he'd lived through nearly twenty years of freedom,… — Judy Croome Copy Share Image
“It seemed that owning one man made you a scoundrel, but owning an entire nation made you a colonial benefactor.” — Nelson A. Denis Copy Share Image
“But I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“where your father was from. America wasn’t like that. You became what you coveted.” — Hala Alyan Copy Share Image
“What is there in this big wide world for a man to talk about with certainty besides his homeland, home and family?” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“If I’m lucky, like today, I get to be the U.S.A., which is a country-country; who doesn’t know that the U.S.A. is the big… — NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names Copy Share Image
“The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is, that in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He had never dreamed that the country of which she would make him king (king in name but really a slave) was his own… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“If you ain't native to a place, you have a better chance of becoming a gentleman in it.” — George Lamming Copy Share Image
“He wanted to write about country so it would be there like Cezanne had done it in a painting. You have to do it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“There was nothing inherently wrong with colonialism, he felt, if its administration was fair and just. He” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“I have traveled widely. I have seen this country in its infancy. I tell you what it will become. The public squares will be… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Remember, this is the country of the duck-billed platypus. When you are cut off from the rest of the world, things are bound to… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“He were still smiling but his voice were hard as a spoon rattling in a metal cup.” — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
A colonial war is a very dirty kind of war. You're not fighting armed forces. You're fighting mostly unarmed people. And to fight that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia into its… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
“One of the tragic ironies of the second half of the 20th century is that when colonies in the developing world freed themselves from… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I am _not_ a woman from your village." His eyes narrowed. "No, you are not, for if you were, you would be grateful for… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
“But what about the horses? Have they always had horses here? Captain Herris Serrano Probably. Colonial worlds usually have horses; they're cheap local transportation,self-replicating.… — Ellen Dawn Benefield Copy Share Image
“...And although thus short, we shorten many ways, Living so little while we are alive; In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delight So unawares comes… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Israel's creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is both rewarding and inspiring The preparation, research and introduction of new chapters to an ever increasing text provides enormous excitement… — Roy Taylor Copy Share Image
Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
