Mother Colony House

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

“Clara: I don’t think a mother should depend so much upon her children for her rewards in life.
Mrs. Pilletti: Well, that’s what they teach you in New York University. It real life, it no work out like this.”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)

““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)

“Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then that the world exists for you.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)