Any Quote by Paul Harris

Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“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

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find…

— Nathaniel Smith

Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.

— Emeril Lagasse

My New England upbringing was cute. I think it was nice growing up in a smaller town. I got to experience small-town life, which…

— Brad Mondo

America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs…

— James Frey

“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

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical

— Tom Selleck

There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up tradition, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic: that if you worked really hard in life,…

— Ken Blanchard

My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law…

— Garrison Keillor

Every wave of immigrants who came [to America] were treated pretty badly, but when they all finally became integrated, all of us became Anglo-Saxons.

— Noam Chomsky