Colony famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart

#Appearance #Labor #Colony
Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart

#Boundaries #Settlement #Colony
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
-- Allan Sherman

#Hollywood #World #Colony
I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book.
-- Andrew Sean Greer

#Book #Walks #Colony
Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.
-- Blake Edwards

#Colony #Thrown
Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.
-- Hjalmar Schacht

#Germany #Negotiation #Colony
I repeat that superior races have a right [to establish colonies], because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize inferior races.
-- Jules Ferry

#Race #Duty #Colony
The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century.
-- Bill Henson

#World #Century #Colony

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.
To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.
With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.
I'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being.
I wish all mankind had one neck so I could choke it!
I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.
For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest, to meet at that point at the top that symbolizes zero footprint-zero environmental impact. Sustainable: taking nothing, doing no harm.
The internet has taken away a lot of personalization. A lot of people are writing articles and talking about being able to social network and making these connections but I don't think anything will replace the human connection making an actual conversation to somebody face to face.