British Crown Colony

Famous quotes containing the words british, crown and/or colony:

    You don’t know Leonie. She married me to achieve insecurity, and now you’re trying to take it away from her.
    David Mercer, British screenwriter, and Karel Reisz. Morgan (David Warner)

    The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
    Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 16:31.

    “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)