“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was bullied at school. The black girl in Central Falls, Rhode Island, in 1973. There'd be 8 or 10 boys; I… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration. — Jack Reed Copy Share Image
Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan. — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island. — Billy Bush Copy Share Image
Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned,… — James Langevin Copy Share Image
I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary. — Lincoln Chafee Copy Share Image
I went to school at the University of Rhode Island and pursued a degree in journalism, which is a little bit ironic. — Candace Owens Copy Share Image
I grew up in Rhode Island. Most of my family on both sides is from Rhode Island. — Sean Spicer Copy Share Image
When Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisioned a way to help students… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
“A blanket (twin, full, or queen-sized) could be placed squarely over the state of Rhode Island, and there’d still be enough blanket… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island,… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
I grew up in this tiny town in Rhode Island, and we didn't have cable. We had three TV stations, and one… — Arden Myrin Copy Share Image
No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
My one-time roommate Claire had inherited the house from her uncle, and when she went off to bigger and better things, she’d… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
“The terribly tragic outcome of Halsted’s experiments with cocaine was his own addiction. The doctor began injecting cocaine directly into his veins… — Lydia Kang Copy Share Image
I swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
“Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Aldrich, a multimillionaire, a card-playing partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, the father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Professor of entomology Jeffrey Lockwood wrote that the insects streamed overhead for five days. The swarm was 1,800 miles long and at… — R. Scott Williams Copy Share Image
“As a hedge against possible failure to prove adultery, this alleged “that for a period of time from 1901 and continuing thereafter… — Jean Elson Copy Share Image
I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded.… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I would like to say something deeper, but for me, I saw a production of "Fences" in Rhode Island and a fabulous… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“If they could not prove adultery or extreme cruelty, Nina's attorneys had an alternate strategy available. Rhode Island was unique in allowing… — Jean Elson Copy Share Image
“Early June, Providence, Rhode Island, the sun up for almost two hours already, lighting up the pale bay and the smokestacks of… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“...Were you in the military?" "Are you kidding me? I was in high school." "High school," he said quietly. "You’re American. And… — Sarah Fine Copy Share Image
“French Polynesia embraces a vast ocean area strewn with faraway outer islands, each with a mystique of its own. The 118 islands… — David Stanley Copy Share Image
“By 1750, Rhode Island was recognized as the nation’s most active trading center for slaves.7 In 1774, Newport was declared the most… — Cynthia Mestad Johnson Copy Share Image
“Around this time, a young man named Samuel Slater slipped through the tight protective net thrown by British authorities around their textile… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Wyoming got an Algonquian name from Pennsylvania meaning “large prairie,” but the adoption came only after a long fight. Decades before the… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
As a Senator from Rhode Island, I wish that once - just once - the fossil fuel industry and their paid-for PR… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
My music teacher who I was really close with, she helped me out a lot being away from home and going to… — Michael Carter-Williams Copy Share Image
I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“[...] Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island, for cultivating a florid and overblown prose style that covered the entire spectrum from… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look… — George Wein Copy Share Image
![“As a hedge against possible failure to prove adultery, this alleged “that for a period of time from 1901 and continuing thereafter he [had] kept up and continued an undue, improper, indecorous and licentious association and intimacy with a woman, named Mabel Cochrane, many years his junior, and of…” quote by Jean Elson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a8d/jean-elson-62560_adultery_as-a-hedge-against-possible-failure-to-p_357556.jpg)
![“If they could not prove adultery or extreme cruelty, Nina's attorneys had an alternate strategy available. Rhode Island was unique in allowing divorce based upon other, more ambiguous grounds, as well...[as] an omnibus clause in the state's legal code authorized divorce based upon..."gross…” quote by Jean Elson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/72e/jean-elson-62560_adultery_if-they-could-not-prove-adultery-or-extr_1649382.jpg)
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