Best New England Quotations
123 New England quotes by 100 unique authors
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox,…
— Rachel Nichols
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Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.
— Norman Rockwell
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Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen…
— Pete Seeger
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe…
— Robert Smith
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New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports.…
— Dick Williams
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Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.
— John Irving
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Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles…
— Matt Taibbi
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I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I…
— William Faulkner
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When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and…
— Alice Hoffman
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If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.
— Mark Twain
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Everywhere throughout New England you find old, tumbledown field walls, often in the middle of the deepest, most settled- looking woods- a reminder of just…
— Bill Bryson
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We heard the army before we saw it. The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan…
— Rick Riordan
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I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearing the seagulls, it had…
— Brian Skerry
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New England waters are some of my favorite - they are some of the richest waters because they are temperate waters and nutrient-rich, and therefore…
— Brian Skerry
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My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist…
— John Irving
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New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable.
— Jim Himes
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We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named…
— Alice Morse Earle
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Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in…
— Alice Morse Earle
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In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like…
— Alice Morse Earle
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From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.
— Alice Morse Earle
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In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than…
— Alice Morse Earle
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One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before…
— Alice Morse Earle
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To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of…
— Noah Feldman
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Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But…
— Jose Andres Puerta
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