Quote by Colin Woodard

I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut.

— Steve Young

“Salem and Portland were founded by New Englanders, the latter named by a native of Portland, Maine, after winning a coin toss with a…

— Colin Woodard

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

— John Ratzenberger

Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.

— Patrice O'Neal

You go to towns in Massachusetts, Greenfield, first settled in 1686. Wouldn’t it be cool if it said, “Greenfield. First settled c. 13,000 B.P.…

— James W. Loewen

Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide…

— Charles Kuralt

“During the settling of the American colonies, it was said that the Spaniards would first build a church, the Dutch would first build a…

— Mark Jones

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.

— Jim Coleman

New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not only just…

— Junot Diaz

“Some historians, in fact, suggest Hartford recruiters may have pioneered strategies that spurred the great migration of Southern rural blacks to Northern cities.”

— Susan Eaton

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

— Victoria Woodhull

My people came from western Tennessee and western Kentucky.

— Rodney Crowell