Connecticut Quotes

• Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

  Wally Lamb

  Different, Bowling, Polo

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• I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Garden, Rivers, Spiders

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• In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut.

  Lisa Birnbach

  Class, Democracy, Upper Class

  Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing

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• Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.

  Patrice O'Neal

  Funny, People, Connections

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• Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.

  Candace Bushnell

  Country, Writing, House

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• When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants.

  Jupiter Hammon

  War, White, Numbers

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• I lived in a town called New Canaan, which is just outside of Connecticut, where they are far too snobby to even mention celebrities. Many American towns are famous for things like, "See the World's Largest Ball of String!" I think my town's would probably have to be "Most Pretentious People".

  Katherine Heigl

  Thinking, People, Balls

  FHM Interview, October 2000.

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• I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

  Christopher Dodd

  Jobs, Fighting, Level Playing Field

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• But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

  Ezra Stiles

  Rhode Island, Islands, Perfect

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• There was a law in Connecticut - I believe it is still formally unrepealed - making it illegal for a man to kiss his wife on Sunday.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Sunday, Kissing

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.30, Routledge

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• There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.

  Glenn Close

  House, Wealth, Bigs

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• I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

  Christine Baranski

  Mom, Nice, Wife

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• I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old.

  Linda Evans

  Parent, Hollywood, Months

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• Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

  Christopher Dodd

  Goal, Defense, Firsts

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• In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.

  Margaret Spellings

  Assessment, Years, Understanding

  "Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.

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• My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.

  Michael Bergin

  Mother, Father, Police

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• I don't want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God, I hope it lands in Hartford.

  Dave Chappelle

  Country, Swear To God, Korea

  "After Dave Chappelle Hates On Hartford, Who's To Blame?". www.npr.org. September 6, 2013.

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• It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Whole

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.10, HarperCollins

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• If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life we live. I knew there were writers who wore tweed coats and lived in Connecticut and somehow made a living, and that's what I aimed to do. I've tried to write as well as I can with books that say something to any reader.

  John Updike

  Book, Writing, Looks

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• I havent seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.

  John McEnroe

  Brother, New York, Kids

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• I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

  John Ratzenberger

  Grew Up, Grew

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• I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

  John G. Rowland

  Forgiveness, Sorry, Responsibility

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• In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

  Spencer Bachus

  Gambling, Three, Teens

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• I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Growing Up, Dad, Years

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Connecticut is in my blood.

  Wally Lamb

  Blood

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