Massachusetts Quotes

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that…

— Phil Jackson

It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism;…

— H. P. Lovecraft

In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York…

— Brendan I. Koerner

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all…

— Mitt Romney

[The Massachusetts constitution] resembles the federal Constitution of 1787 more closely than any of the other revolutionary state constitutions. It was also…

— Gordon S. Wood

Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts.

— Mitt Romney

Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you…

— Howard Zinn

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of…

— Patrick Stewart

Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within…

— Deval Patrick

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

— William Standish Knowles

“The important point of this report [Montague, Massachusetts; July 7, 1774] may be summed up in six resolutions: 1. We approve of…

— Edward Pearson Pressey

I noted, though, that other strong critics of Donald Trump did attend the inauguration. Hillary Clinton went. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders went.…

— Michel Martin

I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts…

— Allen West

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was…

— Kenneth G. Wilson

I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden…

— Eli Roth

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts…

— Sidney Altman

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

— John Ciardi

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to…

— John Knowles

I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, 'I'm the only…

— Arlo Guthrie

I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to…

— William Wegman

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

My daughter just graduated college and she's a dance major. She's done a couple of dance videos already and won Miss Massachusetts…

— Doug Flutie

Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.

— Uwe Reinhardt

Where gays and lesbians are the best organized and most concentrated in numbers are states that President Clinton must carry in order…

— David Mixner