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The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.
— June Callwood
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
— Langston Hughes
What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial".
— Dave Barry
I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.
— Sigourney Weaver
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
— Thomas Jefferson
There must be more to life than what I've been given." ~ from the song "Off-world Colonies," by Memoria. — C.A. Chicoine
Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.
— Edmund Burke
Oh, dear spirits below, this is the best thing that I have ever been privy to. Lord Ackerly shadowed a commoner from the colonies!
— Kiersten White
C" is for colonies Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has most! — Mrs. Ernest Ames
In the end, Edwards wrestled with slavery, defending the institution within the colonies but also calling for the end of the Atlantic slave trade.
— Richard A. Bailey
The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
— Albert Bushnell Hart
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
— Gertrude Stein
I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.
— Will Rogers
Other colonies began to recognize that giving land to women undermined their dependent role
— Rebecca Traister
Start a life in the off-world colonies! We can help!
— James S.A. Corey
Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.
— Hjalmar Schacht
New science reveals that exercise positively influences the gut's balance of bacteria to favor colonies that prevent weight gain.
— David Perlmutter
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.
— Bertrand Russell
May your colonies be healthy and plentiful May your supers be overflowing And may your swarms always be someone else's bees!
— Bill Turnbull
The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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.
— Andrew Sean Greer
I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.
— Grant Morrison
In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
— Albert Bushnell Hart
Only one fear was greater than the fear of black rebellion in the new American colonies.
— Howard Zinn
Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy the smell of his own shit.
— Thomas Pynchon
The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph ... we must not retreat.
— George III
If people of India can reach Mars with minimal expenditure, why can they not keep their streets and colonies clean.
— Narendra Modi
the removal of all royal governments in the colonies. Patriotic
— Walter Isaacson
You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.
— Thomas Hutchinson
In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
— Albert Bushnell Hart