Mother Colony House

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

“Always the same old story—
Father Time and Mother Earth,
A marriage on the rocks.”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)

““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)

“He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of pain.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)