Nation That Colonized Quotes & Sayings

After Nigeria, we are the second biggest black African nation. We are the headquarters of the African Union. We are the only African country that has never been colonized. This is perhaps the last surviving African civilization. — Meles Zenawi

The Suffering Pilipino: We Pinoys suffer collectively from a cultural inferiority complex. We are doomed by our need for assimilation into the West and our own curious fatalism...He describes us as a complex nation of cynics, descendants of warring tribes which were baptized and colonized to death by Spaniards and Americans, as a nation betrayed and then united only by our hunger for glamour and our Hollywood dreams. — Jessica Hagedorn

Don't worry about what your mother thinks of your language. — Elmore Leonard

Your eyelashes will write on my heart
the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. — Rumi

The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory. — John Piper

I think it's very, very tough to compare postseason and in-season, just for the simple fact that there's the heightened levels of energy on both sides of the ball. — Ndamukong Suh

Appreciate every breath you take. Someone else didn't get to take another breath today. — Blaque Diamond

She hated television but flicked through the channels until she hated it even more.... — George D. Shuman

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well. — Caroline Gordon

Rev it High. Rev it low. I'm strong, committed, and ready to go! — Brett Hoebel

He realised that for those who do not love time never stands still. — Graham Greene

I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull from. But it's really fun and not that challenging. It's almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That's a really hard thing. — Hilary Duff

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths. — David Chase

My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I feel I'm older than they are, much older. I feel ancient. — Margaret Atwood

All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is insecure because the nation's identity is not secure. The nation doesn't provide the third world writer with a secure identity, because the nation is colonized, it's oppressed, it's part of somebody else's empire. — Mark McMorris

Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. — Mustafa Akyol