Vermont Quotes - Page 3

• I learned this [ that fear doesn't have to stop me] when my world came apart. I was living a life-long dream of a family life combined with an organization to promote living democracy - all on a gorgeous 45-acre compound in rural Vermont. I'd spent a decade building my dream, and then it started to crumble, piece by piece - my marriage, my organization, my confidence.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Dream, Organization, Long

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• 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

  Mom, Father, House

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an incumbent Democratic mayor in Burlington, Vermont, I know something about third party politics. And I respect Jill [Stein].

  Bernie Sanders

  Party, Independent, Office

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at a rally in Harlem ... Gore went on to praise Dean for taking a tough anti-war stance before the invasion of Iraq and he praised Dean supporters in hopes that will ease his concerns over lack of foreign policy experience, and his lack of support among blacks and Latinos, and his hot temperament, and perceived arrogance, and policy flip-flops, and campaign glitches. Well, there's a lot going on here.

  Jon Stewart

  War, Iraq, Support

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• Earlier today former Vermont Governor Howard Dean became the new head of the Democratic National Committee -- no word on who will be the neck.

  Amy Poehler

  Today, Necks, Dean

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• The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions.

  Peter Welch

  Country, Calling, Debt

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• Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.

  Peter Welch

  Night, Years, People

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• In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited.

  Bernie Sanders

  Girl, Country, Inspiration

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and ran around the woods. Now I go hiking with a bunch of my comedy buddies. We talk about our emotions. I also do a lot of writing on hikes, just to get the blood flowing and the ideas moving.

  Nick Kroll

  Moving, Writing, School

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• Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Nature, Texas, Land

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• I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an impediment to our economy which is doing reasonably well ... If somebody is going to work that person has got to receive at least a wage that they can go out and live with dignity on. That's an extremely important point.

  Bernie Sanders

  Important, Minimum Wage, Levels

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• Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.

  Caroline Rhea

  Funny, Home, Way

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• Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent forested. Today it is more than 66 percent. In 1850, Vermont was only 35 percent forested. Now it's 76 percent forested and rising. In the south, more land is covered by forest than at any time in the last century. In 1936 a study found that 80 percent of piedmont Georgia was without trees. Today nearly 70 percent of the state is forested. In the last decade alone, America has added more than 10 million acres of forestland.

  Jonah Goldberg

  New York, War, America

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• I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  College, East, Coast

  Interview with Ariel Adams, www.askmen.com.

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• The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income.

  Peter Welch

  Stars, Jobs, Real

  "Creating Jobs by Investing in Energy Efficiency" by Peter Welch, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2010.

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• It's a very insular political community up there. I think the court's part of that and they're protecting their own. There's no justice in Vermont today.

  Tom Fitton

  Thinking, Justice, Community

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• This country needs room to grow and expand. In all my own newspapers I read frightful tales of the shameful atrocities being perpetrated on our Democratic minorities in Maine and Vermont. My patience is almost at an end, and if provoked much further I will place both countries under American protection, even if I have to send in my tourists to start trouble so I'll have to send in a force to restore order.

  Gracie Allen

  Country, Order, Maine

  "How to Become President". Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.

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• John Kerry's victory over Howard Dean has completely changed the presidential race around. Now instead of the rich white guy from Yale who lives in the White house facing off against the rich white guy from Yale who lives in Vermont, he may have to face the rich white guy from Yale who lives in Massachusetts. It's a whole different game.

  Jay Leno

  Race, Yale, Games

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• A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.

  Patrick Leahy

  Gun, People, Owners

  "State of the Union", www.realclearpolitics.com. February 24, 2013.

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• Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didnt get much recognition.

  Keegan Bradley

  Growing Up, Matter, Recognition

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• Vermonters are not only charmless of manner, on the whole; they are also, as far as I can judge, utterly without pretence, and give the salutary impression that they don't care ten cents whether you are amused, affronted, intrigued, or bored stiff by them. Hardly anybody asked me how I liked Vermont. Not a soul said 'Have a nice day!

  Jan Morris

  Nice, Giving, Judging

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We`re doing everything in our power to make sure all the names are spelled correctly. We have up to eight weeks before they deliver the monument from Vermont to make any corrections in the spellings.

  Andy Ihnatko

  Names, Eight, Week

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• I moved to New York and was told, "Go back home. We don't need you. Go pump gas. You're from Vermont. We've got no use for you. You're not drawing guys in tights." So, I learned how to draw guys in tights, and I put them in as many crime situations as I could.

  Frank Miller

  New York, Home, Drawing

  Source: collider.com

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• The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it.

  Bruce Catton

  War, Fighting, Men

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• Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is expected to announce tomorrow that he is running for president, making him Hillary Clinton's only Democratic challenger so far. Or as Hillary put it, 'Oooo, appetizers!'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, President, Tomorrow

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