Colonial Quotes

You've got a whole cross-section of Florida maritime history out there off the beach. There's anything from colonial shipwrecks all the way to modern vessels. - Roger Smith

Would people still use the same demeaning language talking about European gypsies or immigrants? It is fundamentally an old, 19th-century throwback to the idea that that these people are somehow like our ancestors, or backward. It conveys that they are somehow not as intelligent as we are; that they haven't progressed as far as we have. It is fundamentally a colonial mentality. - Stephen Corry

Why is it a good idea? It's sort of the natural evolution of Colonial Downs... We now gain control of the track and the operation of the [off-track betting parlors]. Technically, under the contract, we had very little say. - Ian Stewart

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? - Abdul Kalam

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos. - Eliot Engel

When you start talking about the Colonial Athletic and the Missouri Valley coming up with six teams while the ACC and the Big 12 have eight combined, you have got to be kidding. You take Florida State (from the ACC) and put them in that league, and I'd like to see where they would wind up. - Billy Packer

What we have attempted to do in this draft is try to make Colonial Avenue much more of a local street - a local cul-de-sac, actually. - Mike Coll

We've pulled together everything they learned in the Colonial and Revolutionary time period. Maybe some of the kids didn't understand a couple of things, but through the skits, hopefully they do understand it more. - Jim Cook

We've got to shatter the misconceptions about the history of our continent and destroy what was essential to the colonial project, which was to control and with control, to erase, to deny, to falsify the African pre-history. - Thabo Mbeki

We're returning this river to its colonial days. - George Howard