Quotes About New England

#1. New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and they're playing confidently. And a lot of those guys were on field when they lost to LA. They'll take motivation in that.

Landon Donovan

#2. Withstanding the cold develops vigor for the relaxing days of spring and summer. Besides, in this matter as in many others, it is evident that nature abhors a quitter.

Arthur C. Crandall

#3. England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware of the consequences: the tyranny of wealth is still more galling and debasing than that of rank.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#4. Cadence, n.
I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language.

David Levithan

#5. Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

Terri Windling

#6. Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist.

Jose Andres

#7. 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

#8. Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.

Louisa May Alcott

#9. The clear lesson of New England's history is that when there are not enough suitable men around to run the world, women are perfectly capable of doing so.

Wallace Stegner

#10. What happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II
and Germany did the same thing to England.

Lemmy Kilmister

#11. In your journey through New England,' he wrote, 'Would you be willing to visit Northampton? You have the blessing of Heaven with you wherever you go, and I have a desire, if it be the will of God, that same blessing may come down on this town.

Johnathan Edwards

#12. The honeymoon was taking place in the bittersweet mysteries of Indian Summer in New England.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?

John C. Calhoun

#14. I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

Rachel Nichols

#15. New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

Ellen Swallow Richards

#16. It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.

Jamaica Kincaid

#17. In this swarm of cigarettes and dark sophistication they appeared here and there like figures from an allegory; or long-dead celebrants from some forgotten garden party

Donna Tartt

#18. Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

John Irving

#19. I think the [New England] Patriots' season should have an asterisk next to it because everything they're accomplishing is against teams coached by people other than me.

Zach Braff

#20. One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.

Alice Morse Earle

#21. Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces.

Dorothea Dix

#22. When I was 13, I told my dad I wanted to move to Florida to attend the IMG Academy. I wanted to be a golfer, and that's hard to do in New England where I could only practice half the year.

Peter Uihlein

#23. England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.

Robert Benchley

#24. Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,
a creed ample enough for this life and the next.

James Russell Lowell

#25. The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.

Louisa May Alcott

#26. The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.

Francis Parkman

#27. If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.

Edward Grey

#28. In New England, especially, [faith] is like sex. It's very personal. You don't bring it out and talk about it.

Frederick Buechner

#29. Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.

John Updike

#30. I've found places that are just as beautiful as New England, but this is my home.

Jan Brett

#31. The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

Jay Leno

#32. He was a regular Yankee from New England. The Yankees are noted for making the most cruel overseers.

William Wells Brown

#33. 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

#34. My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#35. I didn't grow up in a small New England town like the one in 'The Sundial.' I was raised in an apartment building in Queens, not in a sprawling, slightly sinister mansion like the one where the Halloran family resides.

Victor LaValle

#36. Most of the time we've been living in England and now we've bought an apartment in New York which we absolutely love.

Joan Collins

#37. Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.

Paul Harris

#38. 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

#39. I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.

Henry David Thoreau

#40. I grew up in the early '70s in New England.

Thurston Moore

#41. One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.

Fanny Fern

#42. 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

#43. We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.

David Milne

#44. The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.

Randy Moss

#45. From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.

Alice Morse Earle

#46. My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.

David Lee

#47. Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

Thierry Henry

#48. My parents were from New England. It's very funny, but when I grew up, you always had to say, 'Yes, ma'am' and 'Yes, sir.'

Cy Twombly

#49. That GOP leadership, that establishment, they've got to get their stuff together I love what they believe in, I believe in it too. But they've got to get tough, man. You know what? It's not just the New England Patriots who are dealing with deflated balls right now.

Sarah Palin

#50. We heard the army before we saw it.
The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas.

Rick Riordan

#51. There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather ... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

Mark Twain

#52. One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

Mark Twain

#53. In my life, I had heard hundreds of coyotes and even more dogs, but never anything like this except in television shows. Wolves had been extirpated from the Northeast more than a century ago. Never in my life had I expected to hear them howling in the wild mountains of New England. ((c) 2016, p 239)

Paul Doiron

#54. I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

Jonny Lee Miller

#55. My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

John Irving

#56. The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.

Gore Vidal

#57. Well," said Miss Ophelia, "do you think slavery right or wrong?"
"I'm not going to have any of your horrid New England directness, cousin," said St. Clare, gayly.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#58. The colored race saved to the noble women of New England and the middle States men on whom they lean today for security and safety. Many of my race, the representatives of these men on the field of battle, sleep in the countless graves of the South.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#59. New England: All of the Bitterness, Most of the Boating, None of the Bullshit.

Caroline Kepnes

#60. In New England enslaved people had the right to sue for wrongful enslavement.

Manisha Sinha

#61. I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, without impropriety, kiss his wife on Sunday and possibly, if he have a chance, some other sweet-faced woman.

David Josiah Brewer

#62. The air has that bracing autumnal bite so that all you want to do is bob for apples or hang a witch or something.

Sarah Vowell

#63. A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain, but I don't think so; I think it is just going to go on and on, coming down, until the whole world ... etc. It has that look.

Edward Gorey

#64. At the end of the summer the sea always seems to be railing against the thought of another long, fierce New England winter.

Cate Tiernan

#65. The Cincinnati Bengals look like the most complete team in the National Football League. I can't wait to see how they match up against New England.

Sterling Sharpe

#66. It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores.

Paul Harris

#67. In 1999, I got fired as coach of New England. In three years in New England, we actually did better than most people think. We were 27-21, won the AFC division title, went to the playoffs twice.

Pete Carroll

#68. I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

Russell Crowe

#69. A missle lost Unprogrammed

Allen Ginsberg

#70. The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

Cleveland Amory

#71. O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days are at an end. You have nothing but trouble before you ... Your liberties will be lost.

George Whitefield

#72. The blast that swept him came off New Hampshire snow-fields and ice-hung forests. It seemed to have traversed interminable leagues of frozen silence, filling them with the same cold roar and sharpening its edge against the same bitter black-and-white landscape.
("The Triumph Of The Night")

Edith Wharton

#73. The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

Edmund Morgan

#74. Clark Terry is an American Master. I love to listen to him, particularly 'Mumbles.' I was so delighted when we received degrees together, along with Edward Kennedy, at the New England Conservatory in 1997.

Aretha Franklin

#75. If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#76. She said that she did not wish for any monuments to the Hurlbird family. At the time I thought that that was because of a New England dislike for necrological ostentation.

Ford Madox Ford

#77. Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the

Herman Melville

#78. Eat Meat and your a beast

Allen Ginsberg

#79. When your ship comes in, don't be in the bathroom with your pants around your ankles."

quoted by Frank McNichols, father of Rose McNichols in A Nose for Hanky Panky, a Granite Cove Mystery

Sharon Love Cook

#80. If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Nathaniel Smith

#81. 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

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

Robert Frost

#83. On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.

Ellis Hobbs

#84. The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.

H.P. Lovecraft

#85. After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.

Mark White

#86. I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Bernie Worrell

#87. When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

Clarence Day

#88. Potatoes came to Europe from the New World in the early sixteenth century. Sir Francis Drake is thought to have introduced the potato to England, and shortly afterward Sir Walter Raleigh tried planting them on his Irish estates. When

Ryan Hackney

#89. Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

D. W Brogan

#90. In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.

Christopher Nolan

#91. Because I was a Wheelwright-and, therefore, a New England snob-I'd assumed that Phoenix was largely composed of Mormons and Baptists and Republicans;

John Irving

#92. BORN: 1856 George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman, Major Barbara), Dublin 1894 Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, Crome Yellow), Godalming, England DIED: 1934 Winsor McCay

Tom Nissley

#93. When I would visit my octopus friend, Octavia, at New England aquarium, usually she would look me in the face, flow right over to see me, and flush red with emotion when she took my arms in hers. Often when I'd stroke her she'd turn white beneath my touch, the colour of a relaxed octopus.

Sy Montgomery

#94. If Russell Wilson gets outside of the protection and can scramble around, New England loses. If the Patriots keep him in the pocket, New England wins.

Brian Billick

#95. When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England.

Paul Cellucci

#96. Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.

Natasha Richardson

#97. Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.

Drew Bledsoe

#98. Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

Simon Newcomb

#99. Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

Tracy Kidder

#100. I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

Rick Moody