Top 20 Old New England Quotes

#1. Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the "New England idea"-could no longer serve.

Alfred Kazin

Old New England Quotes #263408
#2. Nothing is wrong with Tom Brady. When you look at the New England Patriots, they are going to have to readjust how they evaluate talent ... You have to bring in some heavy hitters to protect Tom Brady at 37 years old and help him get the ball out of his hands.

Sterling Sharpe

Old New England Quotes #297568
#3. The Arts Council of England, in a 1998 report on 11 countries, found that Germany spent $85 per capita on the arts. The United States spent a shocking $6. And Canada, in its stubborn balance, spent $46 ... It's the Canadian way to be halfway between the Old and New worlds.

Michael Audain

Old New England Quotes #330150
#4. I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

Yoko Ono

Old New England Quotes #372044
#5. It's all about the special effects.

Chris Kirkpatrick

Old New England Quotes #527631
#6. I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.

Spalding Gray

Old New England Quotes #809662
#7. There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. We become producer rather than consumers of other peoples' production.

Stephen Covey

Old New England Quotes #848834
#8. When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old New England Quotes #875974
#9. I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from.

Ted Naifeh

Old New England Quotes #910268
#10. Were we just two more rootless jungle-dwelling erotomaniacs creamining in their pre-faded jeans over Historical New England, dreaming the old agrarian dream in their rent-a-car convertible

Philip Roth

Old New England Quotes #921696
#11. Everywhere throughout New England you find old, tumbledown field walls, often in the middle of the deepest, most settled- looking woods- a reminder of just how swiftly nature reclaims the land in America.

Bill Bryson

Old New England Quotes #977037
#12. I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles.

Allan Gurganus

Old New England Quotes #988113
#13. In case you haven't noticed, I'm a lover not a fighter.

Amanda Hocking

Old New England Quotes #1193322
#14. I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to friendship and ideas. The ancient society, the Old England of New England, Massachusetts for me.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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#15. I never fully realized how much a New England birth in itself was worth, but I am happy that that was my lot. I have felt it so keenly these last few days. Dear old New England, with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions; the home of all that is good and noble.

Matthew Pearl

Old New England Quotes #1369140
#16. I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.

Tom Petty

Old New England Quotes #1429405
#17. There cannot be new things in England. There can be old things freshly presented or new things that pretend to be old.

Hilary Mantel

Old New England Quotes #1441879
#18. Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

Juvenal

Old New England Quotes #1546849
#19. The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

Heinrich Heine

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#20. 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

Old New England Quotes #1740129

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