Quotes About Colony

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.

The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.

A chance to glimpse the traces of an alien intelligence—whatever alien meant in a world where members of his own species stitched themselves together into colony minds, or summoned their own worst nightmares back from the Pleistocene to run the stock market.

alien meant in a world where members of his own species stitched themselves together into colony minds, or summoned their own worst nightmares back from the Pleistocene to run the stock market.

At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.

Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.

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

And Ireland itself? Is the largest open-air penal colony in history

All of this means that it makes absolute sense for a colony to produce foragers ranging in size, for this allows it to efficiently exploit a broad range of flowers in the surrounding area: small, short-tongued bees for shallow and weak-stemmed flowers, and bigger, longer-tongued bees for the sturdier and deeper flowers.

HAVING ASSEMBLED the men who would plan and take part in his expeditions to America, Ralegh's next task was to determine where a colony should be located and what kind of settlement it would be.

You're a man milliner, Poirot. I never notice what people have on." "You should join a nudist colony

They would continue to live in New Tiamaat, orbiting Crucible.

The term maroon, like Seminole, derives from cimarron—"wild and untamed.")184 While Native American populations in other areas east of the Mississippi plummetted, the number of Seminoles increased dramatically. The Seminoles fared better than others because they lived in a colony which did not come under the jurisdiction of the land-hungry United States.

Illness took a terrible toll. "Had it not been for this horrid disorder," Dunmore wrote on June 26, "I should have had two thousand blacks; with whom I should have had no doubt of penetrating into the heart of this Colony.

In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.

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 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.

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?

A hydroid colony no bigger than can be contained in one's cupped hands may be almost a whole universe in itself - a complete unit of life, with possibly dozens of units in one tide pool.

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.

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

What made the colony a realm distinct from the realm of the living was the change of symbols and, in certain cases, of values. The colonists had their own dialect, which was closely related to that of the prisons, and hence a particular ethics and politics.

It was a vicious circle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew. Our home was like an artists' colony. We ate together, but otherwise were absorbed in our separate pursuits. And in this isolation, our creativity took on an aspect of compulsion.