Colonialist Countries Quotes & Sayings

In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel, you can more deeply illuminate a character's interior and get away with digressions. — Howard Gordon

The church has to show the way of freedom to the nation — Sunday Adelaja

Everything that happens, once and twice, will happen thrice. — Santosh Kalwar

Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths. — L.M. Montgomery

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any. — Wallace Stegner

A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated — Haile Selassie

And blood and tears and screams did not matter anymore, because at least they are together. — Amie Kaufman

Remember this: You are the expert of your body. — Sarah Hackley

Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved up some countries and created others. When some of the world we had made by force wanted something in return, we were outraged. — Jeanette Winterson

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. — Albert Camus

For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I'm not one of those pretty criers. — Sherri Shepherd

But what, after all, can a baby do except swallow all of it and hope to make sense of it later? — Salman Rushdie

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them. — Campbell Scott

China is one of the greatest cultures on Earth, and it is one of those countries that suffered immensely from colonialist horrors and humiliation. — Andre Vltchek