Englanders Quotes

#1. I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I've been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that's revealed.

Elizabeth Strout

#2. It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.

Robert Charles Wilson

#3. The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.

Edmund Morgan

#4. My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated ... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

Patti Smith

#5. Acting runs through my blood. There is some sort of creative desire to express myself and I would need that outlet. Otherwise I would be a nightmare to live with

Nicole Kidman

#6. The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

Nicholas Cresswell

#7. We have to get rid of excuses, no matter why you are the way you are,
don't let it be an excuse to stay that way.

Joyce Meyer

#8. She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant.

George R R Martin

#9. I brought you a snack," Takumi said, dropping an oatmeal cream pie onto my book.
"Very nutritious," I smiled.
"You've got your oats. You've got your meal. You've got your cream. It's a fuckin' food pyramid.

John Green

#10. Everyday take one optimistic calculated risk to find out how far you can go.

Debasish Mridha

#11. For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past
- you know who you are.
For the people who will infect me in the future
- I can't wait to see who you'll be.
And in both cases:
Thank you.

Lauren Oliver

#12. The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!

Patrick Henry

#13. I love you as New Englanders love pie!

Don Marquis

#14. A story's no good unless it pisses somebody off.

Jere' M. Fishback

#15. There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

John Updike

#16. I love lighting Shabbat candles at the onset of Shabbat. It helps me create a strong and firm demarcation of time.

Erica Brown

#17. I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare, and the absolutely terrible manners of the motorists. Other New Englanders refer to Massachusetts drivers as Massholes.

Geraldine Brooks

#18. Generally women are better than men
they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obviously, but women have a greater sense of honor and are more willing to take a chance with their lives.

Lauren Bacall

#19. But there was also a little of that thing they say about New Englanders: Being from here doesn't prevent me from doing anything, it just prevents me from enjoying it.

Carlton Fisk

#20. When he heard about the bench, his heart began to beat horribly. A moment later he pulled himself together and, with shame, drove away the absurd thought.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#21. New Englanders could be so brusque.

Cherise Sinclair

#22. Moths must fly to his flame and perish gladly.

Barbara Kingsolver

#23. I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

John F. Kennedy

#24. New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were new only to a few stupid Englishmen a hundred and fifty years behind the times.

Edward Pearson Pressey

#25. Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

Van Wyck Brooks