Pre Colonial Quotes

#1. In pre-colonial Africa, men who had sexual relationship with older men almost always married a woman later in life and had children. Exclusive homosexuality would not have been and is still not a viable option for Africans who value wealth and patronymic extension through marriage.

Chantal Zabus

#2. I'm perfect. We're all perfect.

Kathryn Hahn

#3. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Joseph Addison

#4. Everyone knows a white blackbird is nothing more than a ghost, a shadow of what it ought to be.

Alice Hoffman

#5. I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.

Kristen Stewart

#6. Part of being young is you think gaining 6 lbs. is the end of the world.

Melissa McCarthy

#7. I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.

King George V

#8. So Old Man Date Rape was number what?" she asks. "Four or five?"
"We're not counting him," I say. "This is the Twenty Boy Summer, not the Twenty Dirty Old Man Summer.

Sarah Ockler

#9. I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker.

Bharati Mukherjee

#10. Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order.

Daniel Nathans

#11. You need dresses!" "No, you need me to need dresses!

Rebecca Donovan

#12. You are a beautiful flower of love in the endless wilderness of time.

Debasish Mridha

#13. I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

Bear Bryant

#14. After you've done the first feature, then you have heck of a difficult time getting your second film off the ground. They look at your first film and they say, "Oh well, we don't want you anymore."

George Lucas