Colony Quotes

• In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Government, Towns, States

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• Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Boundaries, Settlement, Accustomed

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

  Blake Edwards

  Thrown, Leper

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• We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Impossible, Lost, Right Time

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Names, Race, Enemy

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• Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Independent, Cease

  'Hansard' 5 February 1863

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• No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony.

  John Steinbeck

  Understood, Comprehending, Organisms

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• In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

  Leo Rosten

  Fear, Book, Dark

  Leo Calvin Rosten (1959). “The return of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n”

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• I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.

  David Cronenberg

  Country, Mother, Betrayal

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• Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

  Orson Welles

  Film, Colonists

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.42, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.

  Dave Barry

  Love, Couple, Emotional

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.208, Crown Archetype

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• I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

  Will Rogers

  Atheist, Winter, Thinking

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• The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

  Edmund Burke

  Religion, Principles, Resistance

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.

  Charles S. Swartz

  Fun, Halloween, Scary

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• I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

  Sarah Vowell

  Crazy, Nuts, Madness

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• The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

  Charles Sturt

  Successful, Causes, Flourishing

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• In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Appearance, Labor

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

  Brooks Robinson

  Virginia, Reason, Disappear

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• In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.

  Michael McCaul

  Writing, Government, Independence

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• I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

  Ace Frehley

  Believe, Moon, Race

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

  Aaron Klug

  Goes On, Dominion, Physics

  "Les Prix Nobel". Yearbooks series by the Nobel Foundation, 1982.

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• At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.

  Robert Trout

  Patriotic, July, Usa

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• The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

  Alfred Doblin

  Home, Men, Cities

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• In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

  Charles Sturt

  Crime, Proportion, Wales

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.63

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• When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.

  Sakya Pandita

  Goal, Working Together, Lions

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