English Colony Quotes

#1. Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

Fidel Castro

#2. Like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony ...

Mohsin Hamid

#3. 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

#4. No one could hear them over the carriage wheels, yet somehow it felt right to whisper. His eyes dropped to her gaping bodice. One nipple was reddened and still moist. He averted his eyes, swallowing. His erection, silly thing, didn't know the show was over.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#5. Though, by a just turn-about of things here below, Great Britain has become a colony of the United States, the English are not yet reconciled to the situation.

Jules Verne

#6. Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.

Henry Norman Hudson

#7. The 3-D effects in "Star Wars" are so realistic, you can actually see George Lucas reaching from the screen and taking the money from your wallet.

Craig Ferguson

#8. I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

Kelli O'Hara

#9. No-one knows your mind better than you do.

Rusty Blackwood

#10. My mind was by no means easy about the need to carry out a clandestine action in the sovereign territory of a friendly country, and the question of whether it was permissible to do so - from both the ethical and political points of view - had to be faced in all its gravity.

Isser Harel

#11. Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.

Peter Cosgrove

#12. Make a firm decision: 'Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.'

Mata Amritanandamayi

#13. Sometimes great stuff comes quickly and sometimes it doesn't and you've got to dig in for the long haul, don't loose heart, and wait for something to come along. Which is something you learn the more you do it, that if it isn't coming straight away just hang in there and something will come.

Rob Brydon

#14. It's important for us to be kind to other people and treat other people the way that we want to be treated.

Michele Bachmann

#15. I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending ...

Carew Papritz

#16. Sometimes God's ways are not our ways. He may do something that seems unclear or even contradictory. We have to trust Him even when we don't understand Him.

Benny Hinn

#17. Your life shouldn't be anything short of spectacular.

Daphne Oz

#18. They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.

Kurt Cobain

#19. Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion ...

Benjamin Franklin

#20. We've decided to get a pet," her dad announced ... "Like, I don't know, a brother or a sister?

Derek Landy