Quote by John Irving

“His words were so...Phoenix. A complication.”

— Jessica Shirvington

“I spent a lot of time rural Utah growing up, and I understood something about the aggressive stupidity and defiant self destructiveness that these…

— Zeb Haradon

“My Lord, the Order of the Phoenix”

— J.K. Rowling

“Perhaps our forefathers were wise.”

— Harper Lee

“You won't believe what I'm capable of, Phoenix.”

— Melissa Cutler

“I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to…

— Anonymous

“It was an early saying here [Massachusetts] that there were 'Roots enough to plant Hampshire County and Gunns enough to defend them.”

— Edward Pearson Pressey

“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“New people could be seen, by people like my grandfather, as indifferent to everything that had made California work, but the ambiguity was this:…

— Joan Didion

I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

— William Butler Yeats

“By doing their best to destroy the Native people who had welcomed and sustained their forefathers, New Englanders had destroyed their forefathers’ way of…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom…

— A. Lee Martinez