Best Maine Sayings
96 Maine quotes by 66 unique authors
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I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.
— Rachel Nichols
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that…
— Parker Stevenson
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I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.
— Martha Stewart
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We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success…
— Maya Angelou
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Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.
— John Irving
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How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every…
— Jodi Picoult
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She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because…
— Lois Lowry
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Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I…
— Paul Theroux
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from the manticore.…
— Rick Riordan
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I have always been inspired by the dream of America-families in the country, weathered trucks and farmhouses; sailing off the coast of Maine; following dirt…
— Ralph Lauren
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In Maine, nobody is required to belong to a union or pay dues.
— Cynthia Dill
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I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment.
— Unknown Author
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Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.
— Paul Theroux
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.
— Paul Theroux
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Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep…
— Paul Theroux
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My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head…
— Rosecrans Baldwin
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Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.
— Chellie Pingree
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Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.
— Chellie Pingree
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Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities.
— Chellie Pingree
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I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use…
— Sarah Parcak
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In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving…
— Bill Dedman
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At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.
— David Walton
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I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that dirt road was related to me, and they were old.…
— Elizabeth Strout
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66 authors contributed a total of 96 Maine Quotes, led by these top contributors: