Birth Quote by Kevin Jackson

“THE PILGRIMS HAD BEEN DRIVEN by fiercely held spiritual beliefs. They had sailed across a vast and dangerous ocean to a wilderness where, against…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim…

— Fanny Fern

“In April, Bradford had decided that each household should be assigned its own plot to cultivate, with the understanding that each family kept whatever…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“The Thanksgiving tradition we celebrate today with a feast actually commemorates a betrayal that happened two years after the first arrival of the colonists.…

— Christopher L. Hayes

“Did that really happen?” said Maggie White. She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Arriving in the North, Martha became a migrant among immigrants, still a child, already twice removed from the ancestry she was taught to call…

— Adrienne Berard

“No longer mindful of the debt they owed the Pokanokets, without whom their parents would never have endured their first year in America, some…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“A busload of pilgrims today on journeys they never chose, having once believed themselves born for more than this.”

— Monica Wood

“They were too focused on their own inner lives to appreciate the subtleties of character that might have alerted them to the true motives…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“During the "first Thanksgiving" at Plymouth, Wampanoag Indians - including a Patuxet Indian named Squanto - helped teach Pilgrims how to farm, fish, and…

— Patton Oswalt

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

— Lord Byron

There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New…

— Alice Morse Earle