This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He… — Jhumpa Lahiri 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
“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
I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary. — Lincoln Chafee 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 meditate, and when I do, Prince Harry appears in my subconscious and meditates with me. It's a little strange but I… — Kristin Cashore 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
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
The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island! — Donald L. Carcieri 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
I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
“Is it an endearing quirk among European explorers to imagine that every geographical feature they clap eyes on for the first time… — Nicholas Drayson Copy Share Image
“The fifty-five delegates representing twelve states—the renegade Rhode Island boycotted the convention—scarcely constituted a cross section of America. They were white, educated… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“I once knew an Episcopalian lady in Newport, Rhode Island who asked me to design and build a doghouse for her Great… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at… — Ann Wright Copy Share Image
When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country,… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
“BY MOST MEASURES, James and Grace Lee Boggs made an unlikely pair. Born in 1915 in Providence, Rhode Island, to Chinese immigrants,… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
I have four Rhode Island Red hens. I get two eggs from them a day. They're feathered dustbins that eat leftover food… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
“No, you started this shit. I don't know how they do it in Rhode Island, but here in Jersey, bitches get stitches… — L.D. Davis Copy Share Image
“Not that parents are alone in their extreme behavior. That have more than enough company among school boards and high-ranking politicians who… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
I did a lot of crazy gigs man. I hosted a Jack and Jill strip club in Woonsocket Rhode Island which is… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I took it for granted and was eager to move on to the bigger cities like Boston and… — Joanna Going Copy Share Image