Plymouth Rock Quotes:

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

- Chauncey Depew

topic: Father, Rocks, Plymouth Rock, Plymouth, Pilgrim

We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.

- Malcolm X

topic: Rocks, Land, America, Plymouth, Kidnapped

[T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers? Or maybe the people in Texas were attacked because of child abuse. But, if child abuse was the issue, why didn't Janet Reno tear-gas Woody Allen?

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Country, Religious, Children, Plymouth, Plymouth Rock

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

- Malcolm X

source: "Message to the Grass Roots" (speech), Detroit, Mich., 10 Nov. 1963

topic: Peace, Hands, Law, Hajj, Courteous

The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.

- Buzz Aldrin

source: "Buzz Aldrin, Moonwalker, says US must aim for Mars". Interview with James M. Clash, www.livemint.com. May 24, 2013.

topic: Home, Rocks, Europe, Plymouth, Plymouth Rock

It's my real name. My mother's name is Rose Rock. It was the worst name as a kid to have. They called me Piece of the Rock, Plymouth Rock, Joe Rockid, and Flintstones. Now they call me Mister Rock.

- Chris Rock

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Mother, Real, Kids, Plymouth, Plymouth Rock

All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now!

- Jeffrey Eugenides

source: Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.235, Macmillan

topic: Rocks, Years, Two, Plymouth, Plymouth Rock

Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers?

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Thinking, Rocks, Volunteer, Plymouth, Plymouth Rock

Did the Pilgrims on the Mayflower sit around Plymouth Rock waiting for a return trip? They came here to settle. And that's what we should be doing on Mars. When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.

- Buzz Aldrin

topic: Rocks, People, Decision, Plymouth, Plymouth Rock

The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock.

- Oscar Straus

source: Oscar Solomon Straus (1913). “The American Spirit”

topic: Country, Father, Race, Plymouth, Plymouth Rock