Top 100 Connecticut's Quotes
#1. Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.
Christopher Dodd
#3. I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail.
Seth MacFarlane
#4. But I'm sorry, where did you think you were, motherfucker? Connecticut? You're in a magic safe house in Bed-Stuy, borough of Brooklyn. There was a considerable Venn diagram overlap between people who lived in Bed-Stuy and people who had motherfucking guns. Fool.
Lev Grossman
#5. I am continuing to explore a run in the Senate from Connecticut, absolutely exploring it. In fact, I would say exploring it intensely.
Lawrence Kudlow
#6. I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut.
Jim Coleman
#7. Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.
Dorothy Hamill
#8. I was born in 1968 and grew up in my grandmother's house in suburban Connecticut, where I was convinced a ghost named Virgil lived in the attic.
Jennifer McMahon
#9. I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it.
Donald Hall
#10. I live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.
Harry Connick Jr.
#11. It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.
Lauren Oliver
#12. I was so affected by the tragic shootings that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, as we all were.
James Langevin
#13. I've travelled to many states and seen the suffering in people's eyes I've visited communities in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Indiana and Ohio whose manufacturing jobs have literally disappeared. An embarrassment to our country and it's horrible.
Donald Trump
#14. My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.
Gus Van Sant
#15. I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.
Rick Perry
#16. I don't think that we'll support any state that is prepared to discriminate against the citizens of Connecticut.
Dannel Malloy
#17. I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
Dana Goodyear
#18. I think she was from Connecticut, but not fancy Connecticut, with the money and the Kennedy cousins and the Lyme disease. I think she was from New Haven, or Bridgeport.
Lev Grossman
#19. 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
#20. from Canada, between 1840 and 1930 over 900,000 Quebecois traveled to the United States, and primarily to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Patrice DeMers Kaneda
#21. Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.
Natalie Babbitt
#22. I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in this incredible countryside when I needed it.
David LaChapelle
#23. I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.
Mamie Gummer
#24. I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.
William Atherton
#25. I haven't 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
#26. I did a radio interview for a station in Connecticut or something, and it was the worst interview ever. It was all yes and no answers.
Macaulay Culkin
#27. My house is actually two houses that were deconstructed. They were Connecticut Valley houses built in 1771 and 1781. I took them down piece by piece and reconstructed them about 50 miles to the west on the New York/Connecticut border.
Daryl Hall
#28. In the laws of Connecticut, as well as in all those of New England, we find the germ and gradual development of that township independence which is the life and mainspring of American liberty at the present day.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#29. It may be annoying, but the rash of hijackings by Connecticut WASP girls surely explains the time-consuming - but still somehow completely useless - examination of my personal effects. We all have to make sacrifices for airline safety.
Ann Coulter
#30. 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
#31. In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
M. Stanton Evans
#32. I went to college in Connecticut, which was when I still lived at home. I worked at a video store, a wine store, and did odd jobs here and there like landscaping.
Christopher Abbott
#33. As someone who is displaced - I left London almost fifteen years ago to make Connecticut my home - I am drawn to stories about people who don't belong, whether physically or emotionally, and who find their families of choice in their friends.
Jane Green
#34. The hardest thing about moving to California from Connecticut was just missing my family. If I went back, it would be just because I was homesick.
Kevin Nealon
#35. I am a border-ruffian from the State of Missouri. I am a Connecticut Yankee by adoption. In me, you have Missouri morals, Connecticut culture; this, gentlemen, is the combination which makes the perfect man.
Mark Twain
#36. There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.
Glenn Close
#37. I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.
Christine Baranski
#38. Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut. A man who so badly wants to have a more human image that he's having surgery to remove the bolts from his neck.
Tony Kornheiser
#39. Prescott Bush was himself a president of the U. S. Golf Association at one time - 1935 - before he became a U.S. senator from the state of Connecticut.
Dan Jenkins
#40. Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest,
Washington Irving
#41. I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.
Christopher Dodd
#42. I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut.
William O'Neill
#43. We have a great location between Boston and New York, a highly educated work force, and Connecticut is a beautiful place to live.
Susan Bysiewicz
#44. I came to Southbury because I wanted to live a more simple life. When I was a child, I saw lots of movies about happy people living in Connecticut. And ever since then, that was where I wanted to live. I thought it would be like the movies. And it really is. It's exactly what I hoped it would be.
Polly Bergen
#45. I have to tell you, I'll be right up front about it: I'm the governor of the state of Connecticut, and I can't write anything well.
Dannel Malloy
#46. 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
#47. Not a lot of attention has been paid to the Asian tiger mosquito, which is another species which we believe can also transmit Zika virus. It has a much broader range. It's found all the way north into coastal areas of Connecticut, Long Island and the New York metro area.
Laura Harrington
#48. Route 95 in Connecticut and New York is basically a series of construction areas masquerading as an interstate highway.
Harlan Coben
#49. Where does a young lady in Wakefield, Connecticut, purchase combat boots?" "Goodwill," she said. "You're wearing Goodwill combat boots?" "Yes." "Congratulations, Eleanor. Your footwear has achieved irony." Before
Tiffany Reisz
#50. I spent my summers in Connecticut scooping ice cream and babysitting.
Grace Gummer
#51. But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
Ezra Stiles
#52. I'm from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.
Cassie Ventura
#53. When they can hear each other over the wind and the music, they speak Connecticut: I will not Stamford this type of behavior. What's Groton into you? What did Danbury his Hartford? New Haven can wait. Darien't no place I'd rather I'd rather be.
David Levithan
#54. [Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God.
Lyman Beecher
#55. My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a faculty position in the Physics Department at Yale, and so the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut.
Carol W. Greider
#56. My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.
Michael Bergin
#57. Some argue the days of furthering or bettering oneself through a liberl arts education are gone, but that's true only if "furthering and bettering" means "making more money" ... For many life reveals itself more intimately in literature than in ledgers.
Gina Barreca
#58. I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.
Jim Coleman
#59. Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history.
Robert Ballard
#60. I practice a lot. I practice in the winter when it's cold in Connecticut - a lot. I practice in my bedroom on the carpet - a lot. For all the practice I do, I should be a better golfer than I am.
Stuart Scott
#61. If I were to be cast as Cyrano or a Connecticut prep-school teacher or a gay boutique owner, it would only happen if some director I had worked with in the past said, 'Why don't we give Rispoli a shot at it?'
Michael Rispoli
#62. We're going to Connecticut.' A deep inhale. 'Via a pond dome.' I blinked bit by bit. 'Through the Sound.' I rolled my shoulders. 'I think I should have paid better attention when Mom took me to Sunday school classes.
Scarlett Dawn
#63. 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
#64. I grew up in Connecticut, going in and out of New York City, and I worked in the city in the '90s. I was freelancing for the Associated Press, and I fell in love with New York.
Lynsey Addario
#65. Ow, that hurts! It hurts like being in Connecticut!
S.J. Kincaid
#66. I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.
Phyllis McGinley
#67. It sounded like the wheel on Wheel of Fortune, do you want to spin or do you want to solve the puzzle? Remember that if you try to solve the puzzle and fail, you will be put out into the snow beside the Connecticut Turnpike and the wolves will eat you.
Stephen King
#68. Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.
Michael Nutter
#69. By the time Cyrus was released from the hospital and the army, his gonorrhea was dried up. When he got home to Connecticut there remained only enough of it for his wife.
John Steinbeck
#70. New York and Connecticut belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut carbon emissions, and New York City has been a leader in energy efficiency.
Frances Beinecke
#71. 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
#72. He had had an inkling, even then, that only by losing himself, the well-behaved Connecticut boy he'd always been, might he ever hope to find his other, truer self.
Paul Russell
#73. Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
Patrice O'Neal
#74. I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.
Gail Collins
#75. I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
Candace Bushnell
#76. A Bridgeport, Connecticut, man presented his girlfriend with an engagement ring and handed her one end of a ribbon; the other end disappeared into his pocket. "A surprise," he said, and urged her to pull it. She obliged. The ribbon was attached to the trigger of a revolver. The man died instantly.
Erik Larson
#77. That is the way Connecticut goes, in a series of Marcelle waves; and Lock Willow Farm is just on the crest of one wave. The barns used to be across the road where they obstructed the view, but a kind flash of lightning came from heaven and burnt them down.
Jean Webster
#78. There was no In-N-Out in Connecticut, because clearly that state was an inhospitable wasteland.
Morgan Matson
#79. I'm not going to take any special interest money or any PAC money ... when I get to Washington I want to be the voice for the people of Connecticut and not owe special favors.
Linda McMahon
#80. Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Fred Allen
#81. The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.
Cesar Pelli
#82. 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
#83. My house in Connecticut is very quiet, and when I'm trying to concentrate, I don't even allow the cat inside my second-floor study.
Thomas Mallon
#84. I love nuclear. It does this radiation thing that's tricky (laughter). But they're good solutions. You know, it was interesting; recently, in Connecticut this natural gas plant blew up 11 guys. It just blew them up.
Bill Gates
#85. You know, the state of Connecticut is ... sometimes it's a provincial state. And I've been working very hard to get the endorsement of the people within our state, and ultimately, the ultimate endorsement is from the voters in the state of Connecticut.
Linda McMahon
#86. Connecticut would not be Connecticut if we cut $3.5 billion out of the budget. We are a strong, generous, hopeful people. We'd be taking $800 million out of education. You can't do that in this state.
Dannel Malloy
#87. We just weren't a family that gathered around the TV. I grew up in a town where everyone was outside all the time. I was mostly in Connecticut; I spent a lot of time in Tennessee in the summers, but I was in Stamford, Connecticut.
Christopher Abbott
#88. My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.
Dylan McDermott
#89. I'm going to continue to talk about what is important to the people of Connecticut which is jobs, getting people back to work, the economy.
Linda McMahon
#90. 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
#91. I grew up in the unlikely place of Connecticut. The Eastern Woodlands. It was semi-rural where I grew up. I was fascinated by the Piqua and the Mohegan Indians of that area.
John Fusco
#92. I have said from the beginning, I would spend what it would take for the people of Connecticut to know who I am and what I stand for.
Linda McMahon
#94. So will you meet me?"
"Yeah. Sure. Where."
"Montrag's safe house in Connecticut. If you were the one who killed him, you know the address.
J.R. Ward
#95. 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 Rowland
#96. I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.
John Ratzenberger
#97. Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.'
Annie Jacobsen
#98. I'm not handled. I'm not crafted by slick, high-priced consultants. I'm a real person, a genuine person, a struggling person in Connecticut.
Lee Whitnum
#99. In 1838, Connecticut paid $14.50 a month to male teachers and $5.75 a month to women.
Gail Collins
#100. The fans in Connecticut are just one of a kind. Not to take away from the fans of any other sport in any other country, but the fans in Connecticut are just diehard fans that you don't get very often and you don't see very often.
Diana Taurasi
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