New England Wisdom Quotes

#1. It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.

Billy Corgan

#2. Be not too hasty," said Imlac, "to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Samuel Johnson

#3. Your Texas is no different than my Texas.

Pat Mora

#4. I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.

Anthony Hopkins

#5. The emancipatory gift of YHWH to Israel is contrasted with all the seductions of images. The memory of the exodus concerns the God of freedom who frees.

Walter Brueggemann

#6. We do not have a paradise on earth; it is riddled with so much sin and disease.

Billy Graham

#7. She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.

Dai Sijie

#8. Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.

Benjamin Franklin

#9. There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom accompanied by folksy accents

A. Lee Martinez

#10. Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Robert Frost

#11. I can't just go to McDonald's after I'm done working out. I'm going to treat my body like it's the only body I'm ever going to have. I'm going to make sure it's strong and it's good. I'm really going to work hard every single day.

Bryce Harper

#12. Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Robert Frost

#13. 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

William Shakespeare

#14. My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

Tracey Ullman

#15. From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#16. For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

Sophocles

#17. Voodoo doll belong in the house of voodoo.

Marie Laveau

#18. 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

#19. I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#20. All humans are made, in essence, of starstuff, and I sometimes wonder if the starstuff still calls out to us.

Zoe Marriott