English Colonies Quotes

#1. In the early 1600s, for nearly two decades, Virginia and Bermuda were the only English colonies in the New World. Here, for the first time, English, Indians, and Africans had to learn to live together. After four hundred years, there is still much to learn.

Virginia Bernhard

#2. During the settling of the American colonies, it was said that the Spaniards would first build a church, the Dutch would first build a fort and the English a tavern. Welcome to Charleston, an English colony founded in 1670.

Mark R. Jones

#3. It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.

Herb Elliott

#4. We've been waiting for a format like triple-A where you can hear Crowded House, Joni Mitchell and R.E.M.

Vonda Shepard

#5. Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Marcelene Cox

#6. [It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and ... the Revolutionary War.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. I've been doing som jogging at home recently and every time I try the distance I end up beating his time with like three or four seconds.

Zach Braff

#8. I've gotten work based on how I look, and I've not gotten work based on how I look. It's all good.

Domhnall Gleeson

#9. He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

Eric Hoffer

#10. The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

Harold Ramis

#11. The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.

Gertrude Atherton