Daughter Colony

Famous quotes containing the words daughter and/or colony:

    Isn’t it great to have a lovely, tall, pretty, little, small daughter like that? It’s really wonderful.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Tall tales” were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing a stranger at the point of a gun to visit him.
    —Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)