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- The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe.… — Buzz Aldrin
- Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Mitchell Kapor
- So (if) some cracker come and tell you 'Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,' you better hold… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Will Rogers