Mayflower Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some… — Buzz Aldrin
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his… — Calvin Coolidge
He doesn't like my name... Of course we couldn't all come over on the Mayflower... But I got here as soon as I could, and… — Anton Cermak
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people… — James A. Baldwin
Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown… — Clarence Page
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 here on the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT! — Mitchell Kapor
So (if) some cracker come and tell you 'Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,' you better hold your pocket. That… — Al Sharpton
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 he stopped for… — Daniel J. Boorstin
One of our ancestors came over on the Mayflower, and we had family in Jamestown as well... I was raised where service was a part… — Steve Daines
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father… — Will Rogers
My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat. — Will Rogers
Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came… — William J. Clinton
And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the… — Marco Rubio
All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside… — Kathryn Lasky

Who Wrote These Mayflower Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 18 Mayflower Quotes as follows: