Famous quotes containing the words important, breeding and/or colony:
“I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.”
—Mary B. Harris (1874–1957)
““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)