Mother Colony House

Famous quotes containing the words mother, colony and/or house:

“What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way to the coffin.”
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)

““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)

“In a tiger’s house there are no puppy dogs.”
—Chinese proverb.