Hampshire Quotes - Page 4

• The God who made New Hampshire
  Taunted the lofty land
  With little men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Land, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.509, Harvard University Press

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• I'm originally from a town called Ipswich. I currently live in Newburyport. It's a port city, so I'm right on a river. It's really close to New Hampshire; I can pretty much throw a rock. I like where I'm from.

  Melissa Ferrick

  Rocks, Cities, Rivers

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• Is there any other democracy where the voters are as spoiled as they are in the United States? Especially, of course, in certain states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire, where the old joke is literally true about the citizens who say they haven't yet formed an opinion about a candidate because they've only met the fellow a few times.

  Michael Kinsley

  Iowa, Democracy, United States

  "Kinsley: The Coddled American Voter". articles.latimes.com. January 06, 2012.

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• New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with neither a sales tax nor an income tax. Social services are totally inadequate there, it ranks at the bottom in state aid to education--the state is literally shaped like a dunce cap--and its medical assistance program is virtually nonexistent. Expecting aid for the poor there is like looking for an egg under a basilisk.... The state encourages skinflints, cheapskates, shutwallets, and pinched little joykillers who move there as a tax refuge to save money.

  Alexander Theroux

  Moving, Mean, Eggs

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• In the past, in order to continue as a candidate, a serious candidate, you had to be in the top three finishes in Iowa. You had to be in the top two out of New Hampshire. All our presidents elected in the past half-century finished either first or second in New Hampshire and in the top three in Iowa. That changed with the Citizens United, when we gave unlimited amounts of money.

  Mark Shields

  Past, Order, Iowa

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• God forbid I should be the last one to criticize, but I think may be Howard Dean has a bit of a problem because earlier today during a debate in New Hampshire, he bit off Joe Lieberman's ear.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Ears, May

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• Yeah, I had it all mapped out actually. Seriously. I wrote it down. I said, 'When I'm the head coach of the Eagles, I'm going to make sure I get that guy on my team.' And then guy next to me was like, 'You're only the offensive coordinator at New Hampshire.' I said, 'Don't worry about it. Minor details. But it's going to work.'

  Chip Kelly

  Funny, Team, Eagles

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• Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Artist, Umbria, Years

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  July, I Have A Dream Speech, Bells Ringing

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies.

  Thomas Starr King

  Lying, Feelings, Mind

  Thomas Starr King (1876). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.6

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• I worked hard at that through most of the '80s, and in 1990 my house burned in New Hampshire, and my studios and my offices. I had to decide at what level to rebuild, and I decided that I was going to stop trying to be all things to all people, and just go back to playing the guitar.

  Tom Rush

  Guitar, People, Office

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