Vermont Quotes

• All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Jewels, States

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

  Clarence Darrow

  Humorous, Men, Plymouth

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

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• One out of every 100 families in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Owners, Jerry

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• As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

  Christopher Bond

  Years, Kind, Enough

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• When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

  Daphne Zuniga

  School, Cities, People

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• The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

  Robert Frost

  Mountain, Curls, Hampshire

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

  Anne Stevenson

  Children, Usa, America

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• I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the union and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Race, People, Support

  Speech in Bennington, Vermont, September 21, 1928.

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• Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.

  Fred Rogers

  Differences, States, Enormous

  Commencement Address at Middlebury College, May 2001.

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• Vermont is a country unto itself.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Country

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• Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This freedom is the only climate in which (we feel) a human being may create his own happiness. ... Character itself lies deep and secret below the surface, unknown and unknowable by others. It is the mysterious core of life, which every man or woman has to cope with alone, to live with, to conquer and put in order, or to be defeated by.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Lying, Character, Men

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• Vermonters, it seems to me, are like ethnics in their own land. They are exceedingly conscious of their difference from other Americans, and they talk a great deal about outsiders, newcomers, and people from the south.

  Jan Morris

  Land, Differences, People

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  America, Thrift

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• No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Towns

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1971). “Four-square”, Ayer Company Pub

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• You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.

  Peter Shumlin

  Beautiful, Running, Rivers

  "Interview with Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 29, 2011.

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• For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.

  Paul Auster

  Summer, New York, Writing

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.

  Abraham Maslow

  Happiness, Mean, Doe

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• Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Passion, Emotional, Burning

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.

  Peter Welch

  Mom, Coffee, Together

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• I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.

  James H. Douglas

  Liberty, Flow, Main Street

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• Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.

  Edward Hoagland

  Night, Two, House

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• Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry." If I write about a married person who lives in Vermont, it becomes "Oh, she's autobiographical."

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Writing, Race, People

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.

  Marco Rubio

  Opportunity, Government, Long

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• Think of it like the best mac and cheese you've ever had. No neon yellow Velveeta and bread crumbs. I'm talking gourmet cheddar, the expensive stuff from Vermont that crackles as it melts into the crust on top. Imagine if right before you were about to tear into it, the mac and cheese starts talking to you?

  Alaya Dawn Johnson

  Thinking, Talking, Yellow

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• I don't think everybody in Vermont loves me.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Sen. Bernie Sanders On KFC's Colonel Sanders". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, kccu.org. December 10, 2016.

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