Bad Quote by Mark Kurlansky

America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they…

— Andrew Lam

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

— Patton Oswalt

“The Pilgrims had come to America not to conquer a continent but to re-create their modest communities in Scrooby and in Leiden. When they…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without…

— H. Richard Niebuhr

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their…

— Anonymous

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of…

— HU Westermayer

They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.

— Will Cuppy

“It’s telling that Americans know and celebrate Plymouth but Jamestown hardly at all. The myth we’ve constructed says that the first nonnative new Americans…

— Kurt Andersen

“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

“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

“Only Pilgrims Settle”

— Carol Durant

The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take…

— Will Cuppy