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I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine. -- Terry Goodkind
When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine. -- David Brenner
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
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
All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine. -- John Baldacci
I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast. -- Rachel Nichols
Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England. -- John Irving
Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded. -- Chellie Pingree
In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine. -- Stephen Cole Kleene
Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win. -- John Baldacci
The people of Maine were tired of being in debt and tired of being overtaxed. -- Paul LePage
I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine. -- Rachel Nichols
The jobless recovery in Maine is much more of a reality than we thought it was. -- Charles J. Colgan
I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge. -- George J. Mitchell
In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have. -- Tom Allen
Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter. -- Paul Theroux
Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs. -- John Baldacci
In Maine, there is a deeply ingrained sense that you can always get a little more use out of something. -- Tim Sample
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
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
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
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
We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate. -- Henry David Thoreau
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
Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. -- Paul Theroux
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
Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard. -- Bill Bryson
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
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
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
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
I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step. -- Terry Goodkind
My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head that if you wanted to be the most urbane, living-life-to-the-fullest kind of person, Paris was the place to be. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
In the kind of New England I'm from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New England - well, Maine, actually - so I think it was seen as a betrayal when I left for New York, which has been my refuge. -- Elizabeth Strout
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
I'm working for the people of Maine, not the whales of Maine. -- Paul LePage
About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don't work. -- Paul LePage
In Maine, nobody is required to belong to a union or pay dues. -- Cynthia Dill
I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else -- E. B. White
Winter in #â?? Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity. -- Tom Allen
I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin. -- David Wain
Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies, -- Paul LePage
Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is... -- Kevin Keegan
Kabhi tere shehar se guzarein toh parr lena inney,Maine hawaon pe apne kuch safarname likhe hain.. -- Jasz Gill
Together we have sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California. -- Bernie Sanders
In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence. -- Edmund Muskie
When you're up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it's looking right at you; it's a different viewpoint. -- Barbara Mikulski
I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment. -- Noah Gray-Cabey
Elwyn Brooks White was a very Maine personality which is, "I hate everyone and everyone stay away from me." -- John Hodgman
Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues. -- Roger Miller
They're each on separate coasts but I think that the deep Maine woods shares some similarities to the Pacific Northwest. -- Mark Duplass
Maine's motto is "Vacationland," but as far as I'm concerned, it should be, "Maine: Putting the 'spite' in hospitality since 1820." -- John Hodgman
I grew up in Maine working at a video store and found myself being pulled more and more to on-camera stuff. -- Timothy Simons
At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter. -- David Walton
Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state. -- Bob Cousy
Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed. -- Chellie Pingree
And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012. -- Paul LePage
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
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
As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony. -- Molly Ivins
In my home state of Maine, we've seen out-of-state groups with anonymous donors spend millions of dollars to campaign against issues that don't fit their agenda. -- Chellie Pingree
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
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
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
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
In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money systems in Maine and Arizona. -- Russ Feingold
A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories... grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a place but the soul of its people. -- Peter Orner
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
In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state. -- Elizabeth Strout
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
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
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
But Maine is a special place: there's something about untold acres of natural beauty in concert with an underachieving public school system that leads to deviations from the customary and commonsensical. -- William Giraldi
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
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
When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it. -- Patrick Dempsey
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
A fitness instructor in Maine has been charged with running a prostitution business out of her Zumba dance studio. Authorities first got suspicious when they saw guys going to work out at a Zumba dance studio. -- Jay Leno
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
I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine. -- George J. Mitchell
In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national level, Congress should follow Maine's example by empowering the voices of small donors. -- Chellie Pingree
I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids. -- Ben Marcus
With the right information at our fingertips, we can always make better decisions. That is one of the reasons I'm working with Tom's of Maine, in particular. For decades they've provided information about ingredients, their purpose and source. -- Sophie Heyman Uliano
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
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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
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
I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families. -- John Baldacci
I've made my evolutionary purpose and had children. I don't care if anybody likes me, I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to do a whole comedy show about swimming in the loathsomely cold waters of Maine. -- John Hodgman
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
Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. Those whistles sing bewitchment: railways are irresistible bazaars... Anything is possible on a train... -- Paul Theroux
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
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
I am an avid fisherman, and my daily schedule is to write in the morning and then go fishing in the afternoon. In Maine, I fish mostly for stripers, and in the Florida Keys, I go after all kinds of game fish. -- Rodman Philbrick
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
We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same. -- Maya Angelou
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
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
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
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
I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate. -- Olympia Snowe
I've always driven big SUVs. I'm from Maine, and there's a point to driving a big SUV in Maine. I don't really need a 4WD in L.A., but on the 405, people are crazy, and you need a tank. I like the visibility factor. -- Rachel Nichols
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
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
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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
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
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
I have always been inspired by the dream of America-families in the country, weathered trucks and farmhouses; sailing off the coast of Maine; following dirt roads in an old wood-paneled station wagon; a convertible filled with young college kids sporting crew cuts and sweatshirts and frayed sneakers. -- Ralph Lauren
Maine likes to call itself 'America's Vacationland.' For many artists, though, it's the office. Since the 19th century, painters from all over the country - including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, John Marin, Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver and Andrew Wyeth - have spent large chunks of time there. -- Terry Teachout
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
Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers." I now perceivedthe fitness of the term. This was the most perfectly swamped of all the roads I ever saw. Nature must have coÃ¶perated with art here. -- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use of aerial photography in forestry in the 1950s, and we think he worked as a spy for the CIA during the Cold War, mapping Russian installations. -- Sarah Parcak
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
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
Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing. -- Hope Davis
On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there. -- Henry David Thoreau
Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is always preoccupied and pre-empted by the tiny pinpoint on the face of the globe called Down East. They try to live not in such a manner that they will eventually be welcomed into Paradise, but only so that someday they can go home to Maine. -- Louise Dickinson Rich

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