Top 100 Quotes About Maine
#1. Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.
Paul Theroux
#2. At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.
David Walton
#3. It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.
John Sexton
#4. New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard during the migratory season yielded more birds than I ever saw in Maine.
E.B. White
#5. Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities.
Chellie Pingree
#6. Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.
John Irving
#7. When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents told me it would bring me luck. But you know, these shells, they're hard to find. They're covered in sand. They're difficult to see.
Sarah Parcak
#8. Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people.
Tom Allen
#9. They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt.
Stephen King
#10. My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog.
Kate Christensen
#11. I'm a fan of Tom's of Maine natural oral care line for those very reasons; they deliver on both healthy and environmental goodness. The beauty of it is you'll feel even more empowered knowing you're doing something good for yourself and the environmental footprint of your beauty routine.
Sophie Heyman Uliano
#12. During the warm season (August 8 and 9), Maine is a true vacation paradise, offering visitors a chance to jump into crystal-clear mountain lakes and see if they can get back out again before their bodily tissue is frozen as solid as a supermarket turkey.
Dave Barry
#13. I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.
Tom Allen
#14. During the summers, when I'm in Maine, I work at a desk that's located beyond all tendrilly wi-fi reaches. It takes me a few days to break the constant e-mail-checking habit, then I find I don't want to check my e-mail ever, and often don't for days.
Heidi Julavits
#15. Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service.
Susan Collins
#16. I remembered when I'd told my family I was moving to Belfast, their reactions were the same. "IRELAND?" I'd laughed. "Uh, no. Belfast, Maine. It's a twelve month position.
N.R. Walker
#17. In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.
Tom Allen
#18. Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.
John Baldacci
#19. I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
Patrick Dempsey
#20. I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.
Rachel Nichols
#21. The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.
John Baldacci
#22. I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.
Rachel Nichols
#23. My greatest fear in the state of Maine: newspapers. I'm not a fan of newspapers.
Paul LePage
#24. I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.
John Hodgman
#25. The best part of my life is I've been hired to work for the people of the state of Maine, and I'm very humble and very proud.
Paul LePage
#26. Have you ever dreamt about doing something totally foolish, something so absurd that perhaps you were afraid to tell anyone except possibly those closest to you? I harbored such a secret for most of my adult life - I secretly wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail [A.T.] from Georgia to Maine.
Dennis R. Blanchard
#27. I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
Patrick Dempsey
#28. I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else
E.B. White
#29. There's a quality of life in Maine which is this singular and unique. I think. It's absolutely a world onto itself.
Jamie Wyeth
#30. As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.
Katharine Sergeant Angell White
#31. I grew up in Maine working at a video store and found myself being pulled more and more to on-camera stuff.
Timothy Simons
#32. Eventually, when I started studying Egyptology, I realized that seeing with my naked eyes alone wasn't enough. Because all of the sudden, in Egypt, my beach had grown from a tiny beach in Maine to one eight hundred miles long, next to the Nile.
Sarah Parcak
#33. He is appointed Lieutenant Colonel, second-in-command of the Twentieth Maine Regiment of Volunteers.
Jeff Shaara
#34. [Sharon Howard:] You know, I didn't expect a kid fresh out of college from Maine to be so cutthroat.
Jessica Lave
#35. The wind was picking up off the ocean now and the whole coastal scene had a bleak, abandoned look, as though Maine in November really belonged to the ragged gulls who wheeled over the sun-worn pier, and the humans had just gotten the news and taken a powder.
Jonathan Lethem
#36. They're each on separate coasts but I think that the deep Maine woods shares some similarities to the Pacific Northwest.
Mark Duplass
#37. Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.
Marianne Moore
#38. Besides trying to influence opinion in Maine, Webster sent agents to disrupt the activities of the "Patriot Hunters," a radical American group hoping to oust the British from Canada, and the scheme seems to have been the first time that Americans were targets of their own government.
Gary May
#39. When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.
David Brenner
#40. What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted.
Henry David Thoreau
#41. The jobless recovery in Maine is much more of a reality than we thought it was.
Charles J. Colgan
#42. I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.
Stephen King
#43. Although deer season doesn't start until November in Maine, the fields of October are often alive with gunshots; the locals are shooting as many peasants as they think their families will eat.
Stephen King
#44. Why would she do that?"
"Because she's a Yankee - a Maine Yankee, the worst kind. On a given day, they can make the Irish look logical.
Stephen King
#45. When you're up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it's looking right at you; it's a different viewpoint.
Barbara Mikulski
#47. I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.
Martha Stewart
#48. In Maine, nobody is required to belong to a union or pay dues.
Cynthia Dill
#49. Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the more they will dwindle. At least you could use it for a summer resort instead of Maine.
W. H. Auden
#50. Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.
John Baldacci
#51. About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don't work.
Paul LePage
#52. Maine Haiku
"Winter don't matter
when there's steaming lobster and
girls are steaming hot.
Beryl Dov
#53. Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.
Roger Miller
#54. I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
Parker Stevenson
#55. I wanted to go to the rooftree of Maine to start my trip before turning west. It seemed to give the journey a design, and everything in the world must have design or the human mind rejects it. But in addition it must have purpose or the human conscience shies away from it. Maine
John Steinbeck
#56. Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial.
Paul Theroux
#57. I left New York in 2009 when I fell in love with someone who had a farmhouse in New Hampshire ... Portland, Maine, felt like the inevitable place for us.
Kate Christensen
#58. Do you know how long it takes to charm people from Maine? They're uptight white people coated with a hard exterior made from other uptight white people.
Joel Stein
#59. I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.
Elizabeth Strout
#60. When I first came to Canada, I thought it was going to be easy to be a Canadian; like so many stupid Americans, I pictured Canada as simply some northern, colder, possibly more provincial region of the United States-I imagined it would be like moving to Maine, or Minnesota.
John Irving
#61. Ye who made war that your ships Should lay to at the beck of no nation, Make war now on Murder, that slips The leash of her hounds of damnation; Ye who remembered the Alamo, Remember the Maine!
Richard Hovey
#62. Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.
Wilfrid Sheed
#63. Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.
Bob Cousy
#64. Man is born to die. His works are short-lived. Buildings crumble, monuments decay, and wealth vanishes, but Katahdin in all it's glory forever shall remain the mountain of the people of Maine.
Percival Proctor Baxter
#66. Reality isn't round, it's flat. There are edges where you can fall off and this October when I moved to Maine, I fell off one.
Carrie Jones
#67. I go live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails. So it's really about two and a half months that I'll feel like I can recover some silence in my life ... which is so hard to find.
Alan Lightman
#68. When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the pharmaceutical companies to negotiate - I was told by many people that it was too big an idea, and we couldn't overcome opposition from the drug companies.
Chellie Pingree
#69. Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win.
John Baldacci
#70. Though at opposite ends of our country, Maine and Hawaii are, other than climate, much alike. Places where you say who you are, be who you are, keep your word, and don't cheat or lie to take advantage of each other. Where you protect other folks because they are your tribe.
Mike Bond
#71. My mom was always a fan of just really elegant, sophisticated pieces. I mean we grew up in Maine, so we didn't have a lot of call for black tie or anything, but I think I definitely got that sensibility from her.
Anna Kendrick
#72. On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.
Norman Mailer
#73. The final cover for 'Heroes Are My Weakness' feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#74. Yes, you are. your dead," i say. "you left me. i saw you. you left me. snd now i'm here in maine where everything is crazy and you can't run at night and it's cold.
Carrie Jones
#75. My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
Patricia MacLachlan
#76. Together we have sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California.
Bernie Sanders
#77. I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.
David Wain
#78. This was something that happened in bad horror movies, and books written by people from Maine.
Chris Philbrook
#79. There's a food revolution going on throughout the country. And it doesn't matter if you're down south, up north in Maine, if you're out west in Portland or Seattle.
Tom Colicchio
#80. I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that dirt road was related to me, and they were old. And so grumpy.
Elizabeth Strout
#81. In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program.
Bill Dedman
#82. So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.
George J. Mitchell
#83. I met my husband, Jacob, in medical school. We married and went to live in Hawaii where his family lived. It was very beautiful, but I wasn't used to being on an island and needed wide open spaces. Eventually we moved to Maine, New England.
Tess Gerritsen
#84. I am a marginally employed person who can escape with my school teacher wife to the waters of Maine for much of the summer.
John Hodgman
#85. A man was sitting on the float wearing a plaid shirt, jeans, and a worn Sox cap, working on a lobster trap. The place was classic Maine, like you'd see on a postcard. Tori
D.J. MacHale
#86. I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.
Sally Mann
#87. Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is ...
Kevin Keegan
#88. She resided in Rock Cove, Maine - or the Lobster Tundra, as she'd jokingly dubbed it - had no job, and lived off a meager supplemental income from the government. Every day since the move, she thanked Jesus and her mother for teaching her to hoard her money like an old woman hoarded cats.
Dakota Cassidy
#89. We thought that the Internet was going to connect us all together. As a young geek in rural Maine, I got excited about the Internet because it seemed that I could be connected to the world. What it's looking like increasingly is that the Web is connecting us back to ourselves.
Eli Pariser
#90. Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.
Paul Theroux
#91. The doctor was a frequent visitor at Miss Trumball's establishment, preferring it to the Lanchester house, whose girls had a saturnine disposition in his opinion, as if imported from Maine or other gloom-loving provinces.
Colson Whitehead
#92. But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.
Tom Allen
#93. I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.
George J. Mitchell
#94. I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.
Terry Goodkind
#95. The people of Maine were tired of being in debt and tired of being overtaxed.
Paul LePage
#96. 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
#97. Towns can be cruel and vicious -- and sorry. In the wood, in the clearing, in the sun, we will one day find and crown her and keep her: our own witch, the witch of Wiscasset, the Blueberry Queen of Maine.
Catherynne M Valente
#99. E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.
Nicholson Baker
#100. Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.
Antonia Fraser
