Maine Quotes: top 83 famous quotes about Maine

Maine Quotes & Sayings

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Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger ... these are the concerns that fill her days. — David Maine

When you're up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it's looking right at you; it's a different viewpoint. — Barbara Mikulski

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

The people of Maine were tired of being in debt and tired of being overtaxed. — Paul LePage

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

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 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

My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine. — Marilynne Robinson

About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don't work. — Paul LePage

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

This was something that happened in bad horror movies, and books written by people from Maine. — Chris Philbrook

I know my dreams will be of you, and I'm not sure how I'll stay away from you in the morning. — Kelli Maine

The whole state of Maine is unlocked. — Jonathan Lethem

In Maine, there is a deeply ingrained sense that you can always get a little more use out of something. — Tim Sample

Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state. — Bob Cousy

Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter. — Paul Theroux

Live for One day instead to die every day.
Work is worship
Do or die. — Nancy Patchen

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

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies. — Paul LePage

Maine Haiku
"Winter don't matter
when there's steaming lobster and
girls are steaming hot. — Beryl Dov

The jobless recovery in Maine is much more of a reality than we thought it was. — Charles J. Colgan

Then I remembered how she was - fiery, ruthless, smart, and despite herself very caring, not a person who hurts anyone. — Mike Bond

I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine. — Terry Goodkind

I'm living life right now, maine and this what Imma do til it's over, til it's over.. but it's far from over. — Drake

I can't stop shaking. I need you. I want you. I can't let myself have you. — Kelli Maine

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England. — John Irving

Together we have sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California. — Bernie Sanders

They're each on separate coasts but I think that the deep Maine woods shares some similarities to the Pacific Northwest. — Mark Duplass

She was at the same table near the back where three nights ago I'd sat entranced by her songs. And where the two of us had talked like old friends. — Mike Bond

Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity. — Tom Allen

Never ignore someone who loves you and cares about you. 'Cause one day you may realize you lost the moon while counting stars. — John O'Callaghan

You can get in a car in Maine and drive all the way to California and hear the same Top 40 songs on the same chain broadcasters," bemoaned the report. — John Seabrook

he normally had his pastry shipped from Boston's north end — Leighann Dobbs

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development. — Henry James Sumner Maine

I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment. — Noah Gray-Cabey

Lette me stande to the maine chance. — John Lyly

My greatest fear in the state of Maine: newspapers. I'm not a fan of newspapers. — Paul LePage

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

I'm working for the people of Maine, not the whales of Maine. — Paul LePage

With their broad chests and muscular bodies, maine coons are the defensive tackles of the cat world. — Miranda James

Write, drink and be merry! — Maureen A. Miller

Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs. — John Baldacci

In Maine, nobody is required to belong to a union or pay dues. — Cynthia Dill

Portland, Maine was the site of one of the northernmost battles of the Civil War. — Hank Bracker

I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin. — David Wain

I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else — E.B. White

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

[Sharon Howard:] You know, I didn't expect a kid fresh out of college from Maine to be so cutthroat. — Jessica Lave

Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded. — Chellie Pingree

I grew up in Maine working at a video store and found myself being pulled more and more to on-camera stuff. — Timothy Simons

I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast. — Rachel Nichols

In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have. — Tom Allen

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine. — Stephen Cole Kleene

Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues. — Roger Miller

At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter. — David Walton

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code. — Henry James Sumner Maine

Why would she do that?"
"Because she's a Yankee - a Maine Yankee, the worst kind. On a given day, they can make the Irish look logical. — Stephen King

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

Elwyn Brooks White was a very Maine personality which is, "I hate everyone and everyone stay away from me." — John Hodgman

I am more than what they say I am. — John O'Callaghan

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. — Henry James Sumner Maine

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one. — Henry James Sumner Maine

I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine. — Rachel Nichols

He is appointed Lieutenant Colonel, second-in-command of the Twentieth Maine Regiment of Volunteers. — Jeff Shaara

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. — Henry James Sumner Maine

Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is ... — Kevin Keegan

Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was Wilbur Larch who was the first man in Maine to call a television what it was: an idiot box. — John Irving

Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win. — John Baldacci

I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge. — George J. Mitchell

A postcard and I'm pining for New England. . . — Amy Ballard

We're all weird. — John O'Callaghan

Sometimes not much is just enough. — John O'Callaghan

You are lucky to feel sadness. — John O'Callaghan

mad: Maine charges lobsterman for "egregious" catch violation — Anonymous

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

We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond quilt. 'I don't get enough of this,' she said. — Mike Bond

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions. — Henry James Sumner Maine

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people. — Henry James Sumner Maine

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence. — Edmund Muskie

When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine. — David Brenner

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

Reality isn't round, it's flat. There are edges where you can fall off and this October when I moved to Maine, I fell off one. — Carrie Jones