Top 131 Vermont Quotes & Sayings

I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

I'm moving into a yurt in the woods near my parents' home in Vermont.

Vermont is a country unto itself.

One out of every 100 families in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's.

What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.

I've spent my life living in rural America, some of it in blue state Vermont, some of it in red state upstate New York. They're quite alike in many ways. And quite wonderful. It's important that even in an urbanized and suburbanized country, we continue to take rural America seriously. And the thing that makes Vermont in particular so special, and I hope this book captures some of it, is the basic underlying civility of its political life. That's rooted in the town meeting. Each of the towns in Vermont governs itself.

Visiting Ireland reminded me of when I first arrived in Vermont. I thought, This is home.

For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.

As Vermont's senator and a member of the Budget Committee, I will not support a plan to reduce the deficit that does not call for shared sacrifice.

I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth.

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

I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the union and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont.

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.

For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do.

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

I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one.

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.

To me, it's normal. We summered in Vermont, and me and my sister Ilyasah went to one of the top ten schools in the country [the Hackley School].

I don't have a PR rep. I live in Vermont.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

For all the flack that we get for becoming successful, you get people who really respect how firmly planted our feet have been in Vermont.

I love living in Vermont and I love living in New York. Does my love for Vermont give us the right to rain bombs down on Tripoli? Of course not. There are exceptional qualities about the United States. But it doesn't give us the right to impose our will on other cultures when they often don't want it.

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.

Years ago, I was asked to come up to do a store signing in Vermont. The short version is the two younger guys who own the store pick me up at the airport and start driving me around Vermont, showing me the sights and the textile mills and the restaurants, and the punchline is there's no store. There is no store!

Vermont is such a small state, and the most money that's ever been spent in the history of political campaigns there is $2 million. That number is going to be surpassed many times. Vermont remains a "cheap state" for the Republican National Committee. So putting $5 or $10 million into Vermont - compared to New York or California or Illinois - that's small potatoes.

I've been a skier since I was 2 or 3, skiing with my dad in northern New York and Vermont.

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

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

Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.

It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.

Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didn't get much recognition.

Vermont will always be my home in my heart, but I really love L.A.

I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.

The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

Where I live, in Vermont, there's this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: their childhood was so idyllic that nothing in the rest of their life can ever be satisfying. It's almost a plague.

I graduated with a B.A. from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.

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.

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.

Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont, or Chicago; Vermont and Chicago are relative constants, against which one measures one's own change. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears.

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

About the only gun law we have in Vermont is during deer season. If you have a semi-automatic, you can't have more than six rounds in it.

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

I don't think everybody in Vermont loves me.

Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

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

The rainy season in Vermont is not long, but it definitely gets gloomy.

I grew up in Vermont, so we didn't really have a TV, growing up, or a football team.

My family lives in Vermont. I'm a law professor and I spend summers researching and writing in Vermont.

Vermont's a very liberal state.

I'm fully conscious of the fact that I wouldn't be the writer that I am without this place, without Vermont College.

I live in Vermont, and we don't have a tax incentive there, and therefore, we don't have professional crew there.

I have a farm in Vermont; that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!