Plymouth Quotes

• We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".

  Malcolm X

  Rocks, Land, Diversity

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• Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

  Clarence Darrow

  Humorous, Men, Vermont

  "Foundations of Democracy: A Series of Debates". Book by Thomas Vernor Smith and Robert Alphonso Taft, 1939.

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• And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.

  William Bradford

  Country, Winter, Storm

  William Bradford (1952). “Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647”, p.62, Rutgers University Press

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• Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

  William Bradford

  Father, Ocean, Wilderness

  Nathaniel Morton, William Bradford, Thomas Prince, Edward Winslow (1669). “New-England's Memorial”, p.23

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• Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Historical, Independence

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.104, Beacon Press

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• Real cars were made here in America: Fords, Chevys, Plymouths. These were large chunks of Detroit iron - cars that had the size, weight, and handling characteristics of aircraft carriers but worse fuel efficiency.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Real, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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• All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now!

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Rocks, Years, Two

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.235, Macmillan

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• It's my real name. My mother's name is Rose Rock. It was the worst name as a kid to have. They called me Piece of the Rock, Plymouth Rock, Joe Rockid, and Flintstones. Now they call me Mister Rock.

  Chris Rock

  Mother, Real, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bear in Mind...that all Histories from the Rock at Plymouth, and Jamestown to the present time, have been made by white men, and a man who tells his own story, is always right until the adversary's tale is told.

  Sam Houston

  Men, White, Rocks

  Sam Houston (1941). “The writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863”

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• In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as human vision reaches, merely raising his eyelids; or if he is too lazy to look after all, he can hardly help hearing the ceaseless dash and roar of the breakers. The restless ocean may at any moment cast up a whale or a wrecked vessel at your feet. All the reporters in the world, the most rapid stenographers, could not report the news it brings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Whales, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

  William M. Evarts

  Rocks, Knees, Firsts

  Quoted in Louisville Courier-Journal, 4 July 1913.

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• We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.

  Malcolm X

  Rocks, Land, America

  Spike Lee, Ralph Wiley, Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary: the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X”, Hyperion Books

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• The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Home, Rocks, Europe

  "Buzz Aldrin, Moonwalker, says US must aim for Mars". Interview with James M. Clash, www.livemint.com. May 24, 2013.

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• It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

  Chauncey Depew

  Father, Rocks, Usa

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• One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Men, Years, Law

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Winning, Doe, Captains

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock.

  Oscar Straus

  Country, Father, Race

  Oscar Solomon Straus (1913). “The American Spirit”

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• When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV]at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship's crew, "now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.

  Horace Walpole

  Brother, Kings, Three

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• Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

  Wendell Phillips

  Rocks, America, Crops

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.231

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• Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

  Agatha Christie

  Missing, Overcoming, Made

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• There's such an odd, eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth, New Hampshire. I don't think I could avoid not coming out of there with a pretty good sense of humor.

  Eliza Coupe

  Thinking, People, Groups

  "Eliza Coupe on the Comedic Origins of Happy Endings, Her Passion for Michael Fassbender, and her Obsession with Ace Ventura". GQ interview, www.ucbcomedy.com.

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• [T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers? Or maybe the people in Texas were attacked because of child abuse. But, if child abuse was the issue, why didn't Janet Reno tear-gas Woody Allen?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, Religious, Children

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, Rocks, Volunteer

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• Within forty years of their arrival in the Plymouth colony, the first white settlers were afraid their children had lost the dedication and religious conviction of the founding generation. Ever since, Americans have looked to the next generation not only with love and solicitude but with a good measure of anxiety, worrying whether they themselves were good parents, fearful that their children would not turn out well.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Religious, Children, Dedication

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Did the Pilgrims on the Mayflower sit around Plymouth Rock waiting for a return trip? They came here to settle. And that's what we should be doing on Mars. When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Rocks, People, Decision

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