New England Wisdom Quotes & Sayings

There are so many things where I realize, like, simple circumstance, like the simple choice that I made one night to not do that and to do this, one night could have changed everything. — Alicia Keys

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. — Robert Frost

The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free. — Leonard Cohen

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth — Bertrand Russell

The important point of this report [Montague, Massachusetts; July 7, 1774] may be summed up in six resolutions: 1. We approve of the plan for a Continental Congress September 1, at Philadelphia. 2. We urge the disuse of India teas and British goods. 3. We will act for the suppression of pedlers and petty chapmen (supposably vendors of dutiable wares). 4. And work to promote American manufacturing. 5. We ought to relieve Boston. 6. We appoint the 14th day of July, a day of humiliation and prayer. — Edward Pearson Pressey

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. — Robert Frost

There's a thing that creeps into this conversation ... that if you complain about the depiction of women [in comics], it becomes, 'Well, but ladies - the dudes are idealized too.' And the thing is that the dudes are idealized for strength and the women are idealized for sexual availability. It's very, very different. The women's costumes are cut in such a way that I could give a cervical exam to 90% of our heroines. And I don't have a medical degree! So if I can find it, that's impressive. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major. — Janet Fitch

New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were new only to a few stupid Englishmen a hundred and fifty years behind the times. — Edward Pearson Pressey

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

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another. — Richard M. Nixon

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 made more cuts than any governor has ever made. — Jim Doyle

Do not practice buddha-dharma with the thought that it is to benefit others. — Dogen