Absolutes Quote by John Updike

“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

Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

— Van Wyck Brooks

The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make…

— Nicholas Cresswell

“New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that…

— Edward Pearson Pressey

But there was also a little of that thing they say about New Englanders: Being from here doesn't prevent me from doing anything, it…

— Carlton Fisk

“The New-Englanders are a People of God settled in those, which were once the Devil's Territories; and it may easily be supposed that the…

— Cotton Mather

“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'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and…

— Elizabeth Strout

I love you as New Englanders love pie!

— Don Marquis

“New Englanders could be so brusque.”

— Cherise Sinclair

To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a…

— Wendell Berry

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin