First time Quote by Virginia Bernhard

“England and Brittany were places one came back from. But America, the colonies, and the Antilles were lost in some unknown region on the…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526…

— Saidiya Hartman

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America,…

— Fidel Castro

Before they became Americans, most white inhabitants of the 13 colonies considered themselves British. It was predictable, therefore, that they would lust after empire,…

— Linda Colley

“During the settling of the American colonies, it was said that the Spaniards would first build a church, the Dutch would first build a…

— Mark Jones

England are still the only difference in the world was the first British Empire were slaves of the slaves of today's English language

— Mak_786

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed…

— Robert Ballard

I'll tell you what colonial experience is.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up tradition, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the…

— Yann Martel

In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find…

— Nathaniel Smith