Connecticut Quotes

“Troop 75 of Ridgefield, Connecticut.”

— Alvin Townley

I don't even know what a Connecticut accent is.

— Dorit Kemsley

“When I think of Vermont, I think of Connecticut.”

— Jarod Kintz

Connecticut farmers keep our economy running.

— Chris Murphy

Connecticut is in my blood.

— Wally Lamb

I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut.

— Steve Young

I spent my summers in Connecticut scooping ice cream and babysitting.

— Grace Gummer

Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.

— Fred Allen

In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut.

— Lisa Birnbach

I think I live in the land of high expectations after playing at Connecticut.

— Maya Moore

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.

— Michael Bergin

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.

— Glenn Close

I grew up in Connecticut, so obviously I'm a Patriots fan.

— Tom Thibodeau

Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.

— Craig Ferguson

I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of…

— William O'Neill

I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake…

— John McEnroe

Connecticut has some of the best parks of any state in the country, and the State Parks system provides numerous opportunities across…

— Ned Lamont

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

— Moby

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not…

— Margaret Spellings

[Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state…

— Lyman Beecher

Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.

— Patrice O'Neal

I don't want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this…

— Dave Chappelle

Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did,…

— Annie Dillard

I remember I grew up in Pasadena in a very, kind of, homogeneous, kind of, suburban existence and then I went to…

— Mike White

I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with…

— Linda Blair

Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like…

— Mary Blakely

I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex.…

— Seth MacFarlane

I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all…

— Lydia M. Child

There are two chief responsibilities of the Secretary's office. One is to run the elections in the State of Connecticut to make…

— Susan Bysiewicz

Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and…

— Dorothy Hamill

Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development.…

— Noam Chomsky

Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building,…

— Tom Clancy

“The chief care of the legislators [in the colonies of New England] was the maintenance of orderly conduct and good morals in…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Hedge funds are investment pools that are relatively unconstrained in what they do. They are relatively unregulated (for now), charge very high…

— Cliff Asness

Final passage of the American Rescue Plan is a game changer for Connecticut and the entire nation.

— Ned Lamont

Connecticut is home for life. I'm so glad I chose to go to school here.

— Kemba Walker

I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.

— Candace Bushnell

I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.

— Dana Goodyear

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

— Christopher Dodd