Maine Quotes

Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you…

— W. H. Auden

Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice…

— Paul Theroux

The final cover for 'Heroes Are My Weakness' feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers." I now…

— Henry David Thoreau

We must provide our kids with the skills they need to stay and succeed here in Maine - that's something we all…

— Sara Gideon

Before we announced Judge Merric Garland, people were saying they would not even deign to meet with him. And we're also aware…

— Denis McDonough

Now, [Donald] Trump has thus far gotten endorsements from illustrious group, that includes Sarah Palin, David Duke, Dennis Rodman, racially profiling birther…

— Chris Hayes

I've made my evolutionary purpose and had children. I don't care if anybody likes me, I'm going to do what I want…

— John Hodgman

“My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of…

— Marilynne Robinson

In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At…

— Chellie Pingree

As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in…

— Katharine Sergeant Angell White

I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment.

— Noah Gray-Cabey

Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them…

— Rick Riordan

I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt…

— John Hodgman

In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.

— Tom Allen

E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he…

— Nicholson Baker

“Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow…

— Jeff Phillips

My teenage children watched Senator Clinton on the Today Show, mouths agape. They attended our local caucus with me and saw hundreds…

— Shoshana Zuboff

“There was a young lady from Gloucester Who complained that her parents both bossed her, So she ran off to Maine. Did…

— John Ciardi

Could there be a more hilarious sad sack than Duncan Leland, whose trials and tribulations, so wittily conveyed, had me laughing (and…

— Mameve Medwed

The only, the only possibility would be if the Republicans are in the majority and they can offer me something that would…

— Angus King

I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my…

— George J. Mitchell

There's a food revolution going on throughout the country. And it doesn't matter if you're down south, up north in Maine, if…

— Tom Colicchio

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

— Edmund Muskie

I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped…

— Timothy Simons