Aristocracy Quote by Mark Twain

I grew up in Rhode Island. Most of my family on both sides is from Rhode Island.

— Sean Spicer

“Carl Bridenbaugh’s study of colonial cities, Cities in the Wilderness, reveals a clear-cut class system. He finds: The leaders of early Boston were gentlemen…

— Howard Zinn

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own…

— Nelson DeMille

For a brief period, I had a gentleman's farm in Pennsylvania, but even then, I kept a place in New York.

— Alan Menken

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I grew up in a neighborhood that was surrounded by farms. There was a horse farm behind me and dairy farms on either side.

— Chris Carmack

Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere…

— Harriet Martineau

“One of the founding European settlements of what would become the United States, Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, first attempted communal farming on the “assumption…

— Todd Seavey

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

— Benjamin Disraeli

From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a…

— Joel Salatin

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

— Tina Turner

“Jefferson and like-minded planters of the Upper South started deliberately “breeding” captives to supply the Deep South’s demand. “I consider a woman who brings…

— Ibram X. Kendi