Mother Colony House

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

“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

““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)

“I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don’t want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.”
—Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)