Northern Colonies Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Unquestionably, New York enjoyed enormous strategic significance. As Adams had already apprised Washington, it was the nexus of the Northern and Southern colonies ... the key to the whole Continent, as it is a Passage to Canada, to the Great Lakes, and to all the Indian Nations.

Joseph J. Ellis

#3. To extend oneself does not necessarily mean to have an erection.

Perry Brass

#4. Eat the meat, and spit out the bones.

Kent Hovind

#5. When it comes to you
I can't help myself
I've never been this
attached
to someone's flaws

Audrey Rey

#6. I'm inspired by my faith and all the different people around me.

Laura Bush

#7. There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,

Robert Rauschenberg

#8. I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

Iggy Azalea

#9. Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.'

Hugh Hefner

#10. Effective leadership begins with effective communication.

Asa Don Brown

#11. Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.

Edward Abbey

#12. Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren

Kathryn Lasky

#13. Living is like driving," my grandmother used to say. "You have to pick a lane." Have I chosen the right lane? It feels like this place, this moment in time, lies exactly halfway between my past and my future.

Kathleen Flinn

#14. The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau