New Englander Quotes

#1. Though I'm a New Englander, I'm very indoorsy once the mercury drops.

Julia Glass

#2. YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and his orchards - and raise other crops than these? Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. Learn the difference between a person that would have never given up on you and a person you pushed away.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. What do I have to do to convince you that I'm only using Dabria for one reason, one only reason: Destroy Hank, bit by bit if is necessary,and make him pay for all the things he has done to harm the girl I love?

Becca Fitzpatrick

#8. My kids look actually happy. And I learned early on that perfectionism and parenthood is a toxic combination for everybody involved. In other words, so many things can flourish naturally. All you gotta do is make sure the soil's right. I view myself more like a guide than a ruler.

Dave Chappelle

#9. At least be sure you go to the author to find his meaning, not to find yours.

John Ruskin

#10. Christine O'Donnell released a commercial in which she says, 'I'm not a witch.' That's pretty good, though not as effective as her opponent's slogan, 'I'm not Christine O'Donnell.'

Jimmy Fallon

#11. In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.

Stephen Burt

#12. My work ... is my legacy.

Patrick Swayze

#13. Great teams work harder after a tough loss.

Ron Brown

#14. I will always believe in love, but my idea has changed from what I've always thought.

Kim Kardashian

#15. Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned.

Teju Cole