Mother Colony House

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

“A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
—Dorothy Canfield Fisher (20th century)

““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)

“A country without bordels is like a house without bathrooms.”
—Marlene Dietrich (1904–1992)