Top 233 Maine Quotes & Sayings

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

Well, another senator rose and said {as they always do} 'Does the gentleman yield?' They always say that - least they call each other 'gentleman' in there. But the tone they put on the word, it would sound more appropriate if they came right out and said 'Would the coyote from Maine yield?' 'cause that's about the way it sounds. Well, then, the other senator says 'I yield' (for if he don't the other guy'll keep on talking anyhow). So the coyote from Maine says 'I yield to...the polecat from Oregon!'

I've always driven big SUVs. I'm from Maine, and there's a point to driving a big SUV in Maine. I don't really need a 4WD in L.A., but on the 405, people are crazy, and you need a tank. I like the visibility factor.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That's good time. I have a couple hobbies. I'm a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer. We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We've been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It's really isolated.

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

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

I always loved theater, growing up, and I was always like, 'Wow, it would be so fun to be an actor.' But my next thought was, like, 'I'm from Nowhere, Maine.' You know, no one's from Maine!

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

About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don’t work.

Maine farmers are critical to our state, and they deserve an advocate in the Senate.

In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national level, Congress should follow Maine's example by empowering the voices of small donors.

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

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

I took a two month break after 'Maine Dil Tujhko Diya.'

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.

As senator, Mainers can count on me to always prioritize Maine's small businesses.

For too long, Paul LePage tried to stand in the way of getting things done in Maine.

When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents told me it would bring me luck. But you know, these shells, they're hard to find. They're covered in sand. They're difficult to see.

Winter in #? Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.

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

Maine is the largest producer of wild blueberries in the world. The woody plants occur naturally in the sandy gravel understory of Maine's coastal forests, where little else bothers even trying to grow.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

Maine's motto is "Vacationland," but as far as I'm concerned, it should be, "Maine: Putting the 'spite' in hospitality since 1820."

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

Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is always preoccupied and pre-empted by the tiny pinpoint on the face of the globe called Down East. They try to live not in such a manner that they will eventually be welcomed into Paradise, but only so that someday they can go home to Maine.

I think that I'm reaching a point in my life and in my career where soon it will be important for me to get out of the way and let younger, hungrier, more interesting people do what it is that I do. Maine is a wonderful place to hide, because no one ever looks for you there. And the goal of every person in Maine, whether native or from away, seems to be to mitigate as possible all human interaction. So it's a good place to disappear in.

I am a marginally employed person who can escape with my school teacher wife to the waters of Maine for much of the summer.

My favorite season is autumn, and Maine is lovely for that reason. In Maine, autumn begins on July 29. That's when you start building a fire in the fireplace and the leaves literally start falling from the trees. It is a cold and rugged and a beautiful place that reminds you with its many death traps - its painfully cold oceans, its sharp, jagged beaches, and perilous cliffsides - that nature doesn't care whether you live or die.

Edward Abbey said you must brew your own beer; kick in you Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it. I already had a good start. As a teenager in rural Maine, after we came to America, I had learned hunting, fishing, and trapping in the wilderness. My Maine mentors had long ago taught me to make home brew. I owned a rifle, and I'd already built a log cabin. The rest should be easy. I thought I'd give it a shot.

I've seen the impact of poorly negotiated trade agreements on manufacturing in Maine.

Maine is a movable music festival in the summertime.

Lette me stande to the maine chance.

We must provide our kids with the skills they need to stay and succeed here in Maine - that's something we all agree on.

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

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

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

I know a number of coastal trails in downeast Maine, all of them interesting.

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

Here in Maine, we know that the system of special interests influencing elections runs contrary to our democratic values.

There's a quality of life in Maine which is this singular and unique. I think. It's absolutely a world onto itself.

I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine.

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.

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.

I went to college on the East Coast in Portland, Maine.

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

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

Yesterday, voters in the state of Maine voted no to gay marriage, but yes to medical marijuana. That's right, people in Maine believe marriage should be a sacred institution between a really stoned man and a really stoned woman.

When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?' It was like I wasn't even human.

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

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

I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.

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

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

When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the pharmaceutical companies to negotiate - I was told by many people that it was too big an idea, and we couldn't overcome opposition from the drug companies.

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

My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely and set up dope stores the way that there are state-run liquor stores. You could get your Acapulco gold or your whatever it happened to be - your Augusta gold or your Bangor gold. And people would come from all the other states to buy it, and there could be a state tax on it. Then everybody in Maine could have a Cadillac.

Maine needs a comprehensive solar policy that brings us into the 21st century.