Mayflower Quotes

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE…

— Mitchell Kapor

“After Hymns and tears, they boarded the brig Thaddeus, a vessel so crappy, it made the Mayflower look like the QE2.”

— Sarah Vowell

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

— Will Rogers

I think my mother's family came on the Mayflower from England - D.A.R., you know.

— Sissy Spacek

“All you need to build a house, Is blood and bricks and plaster.”

— Harriet Jones

I would have liked to be a comedian in the '20s, or maybe even a comedian on the Mayflower and have a…

— Dani Levy

America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant,…

— Frank Zappa

So (if) some cracker come and tell you 'Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,' you better hold…

— Al Sharpton

He doesn't like my name... Of course we couldn't all come over on the Mayflower... But I got here as soon as…

— Anton Cermak

The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her…

— Sarah Helen Whitman

All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last…

— Anonymous

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all…

— Marco Rubio

Julian Schnabel painted a picture that he dedicated to my character in Rumble Fish. It was called The Motorcycle Boy. I remember…

— Mickey Rourke

Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles,…

— William J. Clinton

I have just as much right to stay in America - in fact, the black people have contributed more to America than…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Did the Pilgrims on the Mayflower sit around Plymouth Rock waiting for a return trip? They came here to settle. And that's…

— Buzz Aldrin

We also have a piece about the Mayflower, but it's just a very different, very gritty, very character-driven version of why those…

— John Landgraf

So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't…

— Carol Moseley Braun

But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the…

— Chauncey Depew

“Seasons passed by. I always loved to watch the trees in our garden. With the first rain, the leaves would drench themselves.…

— Ranjani Ramachandran

“The emigrants aboard the Mayflower of the West were typical. On arrival in eastern Ohio, they founded the town of Marietta, and…

— Colin Woodard

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that…

— James A. Baldwin

Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because…

— Lisa Birnbach

Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought…

— Clarence Page

When earth gets good and crowded, like 15th century England, then some new Pilgrims are gonna rocket their Mayflowers to a new…

— Lenny Bruce

The American experience works when people embrace a set of shared values, you come, you work hard, you embrace these values and…

— Jeb Bush

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests.…

— Alan Dershowitz

Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important…

— Calvin Coolidge

One of our ancestors came over on the Mayflower, and we had family in Jamestown as well... I was raised where service…

— Steve Daines

Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage…

— William Bradford

The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe.…

— Buzz Aldrin

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my…

— Will Rogers