Quotes of: Colonial Keyword

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Queen Elizabeth II

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

V. S. Naipaul

The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.

Albert Bushnell Hart

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

Allan Sherman

I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism.

Mo Ibrahim

Running, you should know, is a kind of stillness.

How to Escape from a Leper Colony

...colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead.

S.A. David

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

Moby

What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country.

John Linder

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.

Albert Bushnell Hart

I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.

Abigail Washburn

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

Emily Procter

Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

Imran Khan

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

Anthony Burgess

Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

Albert Bushnell Hart

In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

Aaron Klug

Friendship is greater than the colonial and dominating race ideologies of hundreds of years." -"Some of My Best Friends

Life

In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way they want Scotland to look like and to behave like.

Peter Mullan

When World War II erupted, colonialism was at its apogee. The courde of the war, however, its symbolic undertones, would sow the seeds of the system's defeat and demise. [...] The central subject, the essence, the core relations between Europeans and...

The Shadow of the Sun

Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the bastions of empire. This wind of change blowing through Africa, as I have said before, is no ordinary wind. It is a rag...

Africa Must Unite