Quotes About The Salem Witch Trials

#1. Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.

Rob Zombie

#2. My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!

Stacy Schiff

#3. With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.

Joel Miller

#4. If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials.

Jane Smiley

#5. The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

Edmund Morgan

#6. I'm hooked on email. That's right, kids, I'm one of you.

Craig Ferguson

#7. If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.

Lenny Kravitz

#8. But they shared in common a belief that the earth is a spiritual presence that must be honored, not mastered.

Kent Nerburn

#9. There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

H.G.Wells

#10. Tiger Lily, you know Moon Eye isn't for me."
"She is," Tiger Lily said.
"She's like me. They're two different things. You're ... " He swallowed. "You're everything to me. You know that. Don't pretend that you don't.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#11. If I do not do this thing, then it may go on and on. Nothing of the greater good comes without struggle and sacrifice in equal measure, be you man or woman, and in this way are we freed from tyranny.

Kathleen Kent

#12. The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

Conrad Hall

#13. I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.

Iris Apfel

#14. Sore loser? You bet your fuckin' ass! What on earth is wrong with being a sore loser? It shows you cared about whatever the contest was in the first place. Fuck losing graciously-that's for chumps. And losers, by the way.

George Carlin

#15. The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

W. H. Auden

#16. He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

Arthur Miller

#17. What if they exist because of us?

Greg Bishop

#18. The Lord works in mysterious ways. What's true to one man, a wonder and a marvel, might not seem so to another, as God didn't intend it for him.

Katherine Howe

#19. He wondered at the atrocities human kind was capable of committing. The majority of those housed below were ill, mentally or physically, not witches. Most were poor victims
the outcasts of society; or the opposite, people so blessed, others coveted their lives.

Brynn Chapman

#20. Faith, as James speaks about it, is not a system of belief, but a way of life that consciously draws its sustenance from God and lives for God and is energized by God himself. The word "dead" here and in 2:26 is the Greek adjective nekros, "dead, without life.

Ralph F. Wilson

#21. The world he thought he knew had become an odd thing, twisting time and purpose. But it had remained an unfair universe in the end.

Susan Catalano

#22. It hasn't been anything that's been overwhelming or anything, but I do get recognized here and there.

Danny McBride

#23. Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.

Adam Schiff

#24. He suggested devils, skulls, harsh masculine drawings. This thing was ... heart poundingly good. She wanted to pluck it, and bury her face in it, and keep it in a vase by her bedside.

Charlotte Stein