Quotes About Colonial Era

#1. Debtors and idlers abounded in the colonial era, but failing in business was not so calamitous as falling from grace... In Early America, fear of failure loomed largest on Sunday. Monday morning dawned about the year 1800. By then, 'failure' meant an entrepreneurial failure.

Scott A. Sandage

#2. Set in a nameless colonial country, in an unspecified era, Katie Kitamura's second novel tracks the fortunes of a landowning family during the first waves of civil unrest.

Sarah Hall

#3. I just bonked a werewulf on the noggin. Jeez.

Lili St. Crow

#4. Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.

Danny DeVito

#5. Inventing was easier than apologizing. It least it was easier to invent excuses.

Jake Lingwall

#6. If you miss one class, you know it; if you miss two classes, your teacher knows it, and if you miss three classes, the audience knows it

Mathilde Kschessinska

#7. Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women.

Terry Gross

#8. Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen
For what they listen?

John Keats

#9. My looks arent going to help me explain mortgage-backed securities.

Jenna Lee

#10. but look at it this way: If you've got the ugliest house on the street, you never have to look at it.

Dave Eggers

#11. We came to Macun when I was four, to a rectangle of rippled metal sheets on stilts hovering in the middle of a circle of red dirt.

Esmeralda Santiago

#12. Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

John Dewey

#13. Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.

David Korten

#14. How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.

F Scott Fitzgerald