54 Massachusetts Quotes & Sayings

During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur. — Noah Feldman

All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose Whose velvet leaf by no least flaw is flecked. Love's supreme moment, when the soul unchecked Soars high as heaven, and its best rapture knows, These hold a deeper pathos than our woes, Since they leave nothing better to expect. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars. — Joanne Harris

Somehow, she had managed to stitch her heart to his, and if she pulled away, she would rip his heart out when she left. — Stylo Fantome

Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city. — Evo Morales

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Take refuge in your senses, open up to all the small miracles you rushed through. Become inclined to watch the way of rain when it falls slow and free ... Draw alongside the silence of stone until its calmness can claim you. — John O'Donohue

If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work. — Thomas Merton

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true. — Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain. — Martha Beck

A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar. — Leo Strauss

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada. — Pierre Trudeau