New England Quotes - Page 5

• I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger.

  Sloane Crosley

  Art, School, Good Day

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• I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history is national history. We're still suffering from that.

  Kevin Starr

  Writing, California, Suffering

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I don't feel the individualist anarchists, particularly in the American tradition, including the Transcendental tradition of New England, in any way deserve the derogatory comments that are often made about them by the left. When one gets down to it ultimately, my anarcho-communism stems from a commitment to true individuality. My attempt to recover the power and the right of the individual to control his or her life and destiny is the basis to my anarcho-communism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Commitment, Destiny, Individuality

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• As early as 1776, [John Adams] expressed his doubts about America's capacity for virtue. "I have seen all along my Life, Such Selfishness, and Littleness even in New England, that I sometimes tremble to think that, altho We are engaged in the best Cause that ever employed the Human Heart, yet the Prospect of success is doubtfull not for Want of Power or of Wisdom, but of Virtue."

  Gordon S. Wood

  Heart, Thinking, America

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• You [Hillary Clinton] go to New England, you go to Ohio, Pennsylvania, you go anywhere you want, Secretary Clinton, and you will see devastation where manufacture is down 30, 40, sometimes 50 percent.

  Donald Trump

  Ohio, Pennsylvania, Devastation

  Source: time.com

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• As I started reading about it, I saw that at the beginning of the 19th century, outside of New England - which was an unusually literate place - practically no one could read or write. And even in New England, the overall rate was only about 60 percent. That still means four out of 10 people couldn't put their name to a will.

  Robert Hass

  Reading, Mean, Writing

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• The party cannot be competitive nationally unless it's competitive in California, Oregon, Washington, New England, Pennsylvania, along the coasts. And the problem for the party is, you can't get there from here. You can't start out where the current Republicans are and win back those places. To me, what you have to do is create a different Republican Party that can win in those places.

  David Brooks

  Party, Winning, Oregon

  "Shields and Brooks on Obama in the Mideast, GOP in Overhaul". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 22, 2013.

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• Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.

  William Monahan

  Art, World, England

  Source: collider.com

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• In New England enslaved people had the right to sue for wrongful enslavement.

  Manisha Sinha

  People, England, Enslavement

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• In New England, especially, [faith] is like sex. It's very personal. You don't bring it out and talk about it.

  Frederick Buechner

  Sex, England

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened to that date, especially in New England and to som degree in the South.

  Charles R. Morris

  Thinking, Degrees, Finals

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

  Caleb Cushing

  Men, Liberty, Doctrine

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• Each decision will be done on a case-by-case basis and we'll make the decision we feel is best for the New England Patriots football team.

  Bill Belichick

  Football, Team, Decision

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• It's time for the New England Patriots to move on and that's what our job is. And as I said, our goal is the same: to have a winning football team, to be a pillar in the community. That's what our direction is; that's what we're going to do.

  Bill Belichick

  Football, Jobs, Team

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything.

  Geena Davis

  Mom, Father, House

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I was a young folk singer, or wanted to be. I really wanted to be a New England folk singer, but they never would accept me. I was always hard to categorize, and people wouldn't know what to make of it.

  Steve Young

  People, Singers, England

  Steve Young Interview, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

  Howard Nemerov

  Icy, Alive, Literature

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• I grew up in the early '70s in New England.

  Thurston Moore

  England, Grew Up, Grew

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• Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.

  Norman Mailer

  Summer, Winter, Artist

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

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• Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles and polite political opinions. This is incorrect. If you want to get New England right, just imagine a giant mullet in paint-stained pants and a Red Sox hat being pushed into the back of a cruiser after a bar fight.

  Matt Taibbi

  Home, Fighting, Thinking

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• That GOP leadership, that establishment, they've got to get their stuff together I love what they believe in, I believe in it too. But they've got to get tough, man. You know what? It's not just the New England Patriots who are dealing with deflated balls right now.

  Sarah Palin

  Believe, Men, Together

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• Pope Francis is going to go to Washington, D.C., to address Congress. He believes the New England Patriots have been deflating his giant hat.

  David Letterman

  Believe, Giants, Addresses

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• I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!

  William Faulkner

  Hate, Dark, Air

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.

  Francis Parkman

  Ambition, Circles, Achievement

  Francis Parkman (1871). “Pioneers of France in the New World”, p.10

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• The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph.

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Spiritual, Prayer, Secret

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