New england Quotes · Page 8

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

— John F. Kennedy

Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England…

— Bob Brookmeyer

I think the [New England] Patriots' season should have an asterisk next to it because everything they're accomplishing is against teams coached…

— Zach Braff

I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with…

— Randy Moss

I'm certainly not intimidated by New England or anybody else.

— Rex Ryan

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

— Paul Harris

I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, without impropriety, kiss his wife…

— David Josiah Brewer

I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Transferring in haste, I felt a curious breathlessness as the cars rumbled on through the early afternoon sunlight into territories I had…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“On January 27, 1778, the -Articles of Confederation-, recently adopted by Congress, were debated here [Montague, Massachusetts]. It was 'voted to approve…

— Edward Pearson Pressey

To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on…

— Michael Eisner

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would…

— Nathaniel Smith

I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays…

— Randy Harrison

I have been trying to think of the earth as a kind of organism, but it is no go. I cannot think…

— Lewis Thomas

Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was…

— Matt Hasselbeck

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.

— William Monahan

I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics,…

— Rachel Nichols

I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be…

— Spalding Gray

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

— R. A. Salvatore

June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.

— Gladys Taber

There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up…

— Henry David Thoreau

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.

— Norman Rockwell

... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying…

— Thomas Jefferson