Colony Quotes

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Europe is no longer Europe, it is 'Eurabia,' a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.

I repeat that superior races have a right [to establish colonies], because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize inferior races.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony. I keep thinking how much harder it would be to carry concealed weapons.

Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.

I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.

When the world looks at America, what it sees is an Israeli colony.

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.

No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony.

Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation.

A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together.

Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.

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

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.

Haiti was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the last 200 years, Haiti has had a very unfortunate history.

Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.

I’m from the health department. You’ve heard of Typhoid Mary? This fella’s got enough typhoid to start his own colony.

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be like.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

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.

Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.

Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony.

The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.

I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.

What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial".

Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over

We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.

There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as an artist colony.

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.

When it comes to France, it seems to me the fundamental question is how a former colonial power should interact with its former colony.

I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony of the East; maybe new technologies and too much travel undermine the idea of provinciality.

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book.