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Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable. -- Norman Rockwell
If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar. -- Randy Moss
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. -- Caleb Cushing
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
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England. -- Horace Porter
I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization. -- Randy Moss
In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried. -- Alice Morse Earle
While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well. -- Paul Harris
New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
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
To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years. -- Noah Feldman
I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.' -- Randy Moss
I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October. -- Robert Smith
I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger. -- Sloane Crosley
I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail. -- Seth MacFarlane
There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice. -- Charlie Haden
New England waters are some of my favorite - they are some of the richest waters because they are temperate waters and nutrient-rich, and therefore provide food for so many animals, from giant whales to sharks to everything else. -- Brian Skerry
So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do. -- Alton Brown
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
Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England. -- Archibald MacLeish
Well, I've learned a lot from Bill Belichick. I've said time and time again, before I got to New England, I thought I knew a lot about football. But I think he taught me a lot from A to Z. I still carry it to this day. -- Randy Moss
I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearing the seagulls, it had a real calming effect. But also, it was a mysterious thing - I remember wondering what was under those dark New England seas. -- Brian Skerry
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
Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England. -- John Irving
I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family. -- R. A. Salvatore
The one great poem of New England is her Sunday. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I'm not in the least Southern; I'm entirely New England. -- Conrad Aiken
June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible. -- Gladys Taber
Continuity is one of the things I like about New England. -- Tracy Kidder
For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent. -- Michael Caine
I grew up in the early '70s in New England. -- Thurston Moore
Though I'm a New Englander, I'm very indoorsy once the mercury drops. -- Julia Glass
The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England. -- Henry David Thoreau
One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too. -- Fanny Fern
Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent. -- Simon Newcomb
New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable. -- Jim Himes
In New England enslaved people had the right to sue for wrongful enslavement. -- Manisha Sinha
My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever. -- Nat Hentoff
Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte. -- Francis Parkman
If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes. -- Mark Twain
I've found places that are just as beautiful as New England, but this is my home. -- Jan Brett
One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it. -- Mark Twain
When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England. -- Paul Cellucci
Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France. -- Henry David Thoreau
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. -- Bernie Worrell
People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four. -- Carlton Fisk
New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average. -- Patrick J. Kennedy
I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep. -- John F. Kennedy
People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word. -- Ali MacGraw
Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve. -- Emeril Lagasse
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. -- John Updike
The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it. -- Cleveland Amory
After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory. -- Mark White
As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions. -- Ellen Swallow Richards
It's a place I'll always remember, and I have nothing bad to say about New England. I love that place. -- Logan Mankins
In New England, especially, [faith] is like sex. It's very personal. You don't bring it out and talk about it. -- Frederick Buechner
Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in. -- William Monahan
Sign at a New England church: Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished? -- Dave Barry
When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece. -- Clarence Day
From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life. -- Alice Morse Earle
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American! -- Patrick Henry
I'm not going to say something I shouldn't. In that way, I was probably the perfect guy to play in New England. -- Logan Mankins
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
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
I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England. -- Randy Harrison
Each decision will be done on a case-by-case basis and we'll make the decision we feel is best for the New England Patriots football team. -- Bill Belichick
Pope Francis is going to go to Washington, D.C., to address Congress. He believes the New England Patriots have been deflating his giant hat. -- David Letterman
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
For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October. -- Hal Borland
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
In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools. -- Alice Morse Earle
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves. -- John Updike
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
The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself. -- Rufus Choate
The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture. -- Henry Ward Beecher
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
Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas. -- Henry David Thoreau
New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting day in Vermont. -- Murray Bookchin
Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect. -- Henry David Thoreau
When we went into the New England states, people were talking about the new sound of Flatt & Scruggs, but we had been doing that sound for 20 years. -- Lester Flatt
The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. -- Peter Stuyvesant
I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it! -- William Faulkner
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties. -- Pete Seeger
You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation. -- Stephen King
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
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
My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers. -- Patti Smith
My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard. -- Robert Ballard
What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing -- Willem Lange
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
You [Hillary Clinton] go to New England, you go to Ohio, Pennsylvania, you go anywhere you want, Secretary Clinton, and you will see devastation where manufacture is down 30, 40, sometimes 50 percent. -- Donald Trump
That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia. -- Henry David Thoreau
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
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda. -- Michael Pollan
My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything. -- Geena Davis
From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history is national history. We're still suffering from that. -- Kevin Starr
The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future. -- Helen Keller
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
What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university. -- Mark Shields
In New England, farmers say, "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute!" Meaning, of course, that New England weather is constantly changing. This is like the brain and its mind. -- J. Allan Hobson
In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the chÃ¢teau, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory. -- Henry David Thoreau
Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen. -- Alice Morse Earle
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
Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim. -- Matt Hasselbeck
New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports. But Red Sox Nation is Red Sox Nation. -- Dick Williams
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
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
My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education. -- John Knowles
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
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
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
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
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

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