Massachusetts Quotes · Page 2

One of my very favourite poets was a Massachusetts poet named Robert Lowell.

— Mark Lanegan

It is the honor of a lifetime to represent the people of the Massachusetts 4th.

— Jake Auchincloss

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.

— Merton Miller

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

— William Standish Knowles

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

— John James Ingalls

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

— George W. Bush

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

— Emeril Lagasse

When you were in Massachusetts, small business development ranked about 48th out of 50.

— Barack Obama

I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in…

— Uzo Aduba

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act…

— John Buchanan Robinson

Obviously Massachusetts has one of the best public school systems in the country. But there are schools, like in Brockton, where kids…

— Devin McCourty

In Massachusetts, where properly qualified 'persons' were allowed to practice law, the Supreme Court decided that a woman was not a 'person,'…

— Lucy Stone

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the…

— Thomas Sowell

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

With the presidential debates right around the corner, John Kerry is going to play Mitt Romney to help the President prepare for…

— Jay Leno

[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his…

— Newt Gingrich

And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now…

— John F. Kennedy

John Kerry's victory over Howard Dean has completely changed the presidential race around. Now instead of the rich white guy from Yale…

— Jay Leno

Moving is easy, exciting, an adventure - when you're young. Later, not so much. I love Massachusetts, my old home. Sometimes, late…

— Susan Estrich

the place (Dogtown, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, fh) is forsaken and majestically lovely as if nature had at last formed one spot where…

— Marsden Hartley

The American servicemen and women of the Guard and Reserve leave their jobs, their spouses and their children to wear the uniform…

— Mitt Romney

The first time I ran for office in 2002, running for governor in Massachusetts against Mitt Romney, we actually worked with a…

— Jill Stein

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

Even in Madison's day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick…

— Jeffrey Toobin

The unemployment rate went down as I was governor of Massachusetts. We were losing jobs every month when I came into the…

— Mitt Romney

Why do the people in Massachusetts need to have a superdelegate speak on their behalf when they've already voted?

— Michael Capuano

I went to high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, which in hindsight was very nice.

— Eugene Mirman

I was governor of Kansas when Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts.

— Kathleen Sebelius

“In Massachusetts and Vermont, there had been plenty of mosquitoes, but in New Hampshire, they had reinforcements.”

— Jennifer Pharr Davis

For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

— Robert Kennedy

Sodomy will always be a sin with god, even if its legal in Massachusetts.

— Gordon Klingenschmitt

My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the…

— Stacy Schiff

I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.

— Hillary Clinton

New Hampshire is different than Massachusetts. We have - well, we're the Live Free or Die state. We are independent.

— Jeanne Shaheen

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

— Barney Frank

From Cape Cod to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts is home to some of the country's most sought-after summer refuges.

— Colin Cowherd

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

— Margaret Spellings

“Massachusetts (the latter’s state-sanctioned church was not disestablished until 1833).”

— Anonymous

I grew up in a town called Hopedale, Massachusetts. I was born there in 1964, and the only thing I hate outside…

— Dana Gould