Colonizing Quotes

#1. Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

Aasif Mandvi

#2. The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse.

Russell Green

#3. The "we" evoked here is all of us, black people/people of color, who are daily bombarded by a powerful colonizing whiteness that seduces us away from ourselves that negates that there is beauty to be found in any form of blackness that is not imitation whiteness.

Bell Hooks

#4. Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.

Buzz Aldrin

#5. 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

#6. If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

William E. Gladstone

#7. The colonizing mind invites itself wherever it wishes to intrude; it is a worthwhile practice for the coming millennium to train ourselves away from such a mind.

Alice Walker

#8. The chances of anyone colonizing Mars are a million to one!" Or so the newspapers said. But still we came.

G.H. Finn

#9. China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.

Jose Rizal

#10. But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.

David Korten

#11. Mankind is destined to step beyond his earthly bonds just as his ancestors once crawled out of the seas. Colonizing new worlds ... the race will survive.

Charles Sheldon

#12. My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on Mars and we have programs to look at colonizing the Moon but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own planet, and the technology is at hand!

Robert Ballard

#13. Humans colonizing and conquering others have a propensity for this, for burning behind them what they cannot possess or control, as if their conflicts are not with themselves and their own way of being, but with the land itself.

Linda Hogan

#14. I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonizing other planets,

Stephen Hawking

#15. Andrews had probably been some innocent and hospitable person of a psychic disposition who had simply been overwhelmed by the colonizing souls.

Terry Pratchett

#16. raises an interesting question about the new corporate giants that are colonizing large swaths of virtual space. He asks, "how hard would it be to go a week without Google? Or, to up the ante, without Facebook, Amazon, Skype, Twitter, Apple, eBay, and Google?

Jeremy Rifkin

#17. Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

Abraham Lincoln

#18. It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe.

Freeman Dyson

#19. [Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

Baruch Spinoza

#20. had been installed on top of each cab for the drivers. The cabs were stripped of everything that added excess weight but left otherwise intact, with doors that closed and windows of difficult-to-break automobile glass,

Emily St. John Mandel

#21. It's impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point.

Saeb Erekat

#22. Don't just discover . . . Encounter!

J.P. Osterman

#23. Since the day I first met you, you've given me so many precious things. If I hadn't met you, I would never have become the person I am today.

Hisaya Nakajo

#24. Solitude is a temple for me.

M. T. Panchal

#25. You have the power to fight. You do what other people can't do.

Sally Green

#26. I don't know how it is, but I am so tired of commonplace happiness and commonplace goals.

Jens Peter Jacobsen

#27. His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

Ann Brashares

#28. In the changing weather of life, rather than drift with the currents or be cast about in storms, be the wind at your own back.

Gina Greenlee

#29. Most of us make assumptions about how someone will relate to us, and they are often unfounded.

Michele Jennae

#30. And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio.'

Dave Foley

#31. For me, my mother is everything.

Mario Balotelli

#32. You can be good at many things, but you can only be great at one thing, until you find that thing, you are an average loser.

M.F. Moonzajer

#33. Ignazio Michele Vitale," I say playfully, intentionally flubbing the middle name, just to get more of a rise out of him. "I can't believe you were singing a song from the eighties."
"You were seeing things.

J.M. Darhower

#34. When I was a little boy, I didn't know what the Hall of Fame was. I was just playing the game of baseball, and I wanted to be just like my dad.

Roberto Alomar