There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil…

“By doing their best to destroy the Native people who had welcomed and sustained their forefathers, New Englanders had destroyed their forefathers’ way of…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

— Van Wyck Brooks

The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make…

— Nicholas Cresswell

“New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that…

— Edward Pearson Pressey

But there was also a little of that thing they say about New Englanders: Being from here doesn't prevent me from doing anything, it…

— Carlton Fisk

“The New-Englanders are a People of God settled in those, which were once the Devil's Territories; and it may easily be supposed that the…

— Cotton Mather

“Salem and Portland were founded by New Englanders, the latter named by a native of Portland, Maine, after winning a coin toss with a…

— Colin Woodard

I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and…

— Elizabeth Strout

I love you as New Englanders love pie!

— Don Marquis

“New Englanders could be so brusque.”

— Cherise Sinclair

To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a…

— Wendell Berry

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

— William Wordsworth

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants…

— Hal Borland