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Christmas celebrations in the early colonies to the condemnations today of the commercial nature of the feast. — Anne Rice

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

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit. — George III

So that's our new flag. The thing we've been fighting for-thirteen stripes for the colonies and thirteen stars in a circle for the union. — Lamar Trotti

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

THE COLONIES OF AMERICA C L O U D . M E D I T E C H . D E S C O N . E V E R G R E E N A FREE STATE IS A CORPORATE STATE Abruptly — Marie Lu

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies. — Grant Morrison

Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs. — Kerry Cohen

American colonies were as much a dumping ground as an escape, a forgetting place. — Neil Gaiman

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

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

If people of India can reach Mars with minimal expenditure, why can they not keep their streets and colonies clean. — Narendra Modi

By the time Whitefield died in 1770, an inconceivable 80 percent of the population of the American colonies had heard him preach at least once. — Eric Metaxas

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