New Hampshire Quotes:

Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.60, Delphi Classics

topic: Morning, Light, Sea, Morning Light, Hampshire

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

topic: Sales Tax, Cheapskates, New Hampshire

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

- Robert Frost

source: Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

topic: Mountain, Curls, Vermont, Hampshire, New Hampshire

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

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

topic: Lying, Feelings, Mind, Sublimity, New Hampshire

Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.

- Daniel Webster

topic: Men, Shoes, Gold, Gold Teeth, Hampshire

There's such an odd, eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth, New Hampshire. I don't think I could avoid not coming out of there with a pretty good sense of humor.

- Eliza Coupe

source: "Eliza Coupe on the Comedic Origins of Happy Endings, Her Passion for Michael Fassbender, and her Obsession with Ace Ventura". GQ interview, www.ucbcomedy.com.

topic: Plymouth, Good Sense Of Humor, Hampshire, New Hampshire

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

- Steven Tyler

topic: Friends, Beautiful, Winter, Miles Away, Raccoons

Because the people of New Hampshire take their responsibilities as citizens of the Republic seriously, they keep it interesting for candidates who, believe it or not, can get a little tired of the mannered, predictable, and unimaginative qualities that typically afflict modern political campaigns.

- John McCain

topic: Believe, Tired, Responsibility, Hampshire, New Hampshire

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

- Adam Sandler

topic: Brother, Children, Growing Up, Hampshire, New Hampshire

Howard Dean came in a disappointing third place. Afterwards Dean said 'Iowa is behind me and now I look forward to screaming at voters in New Hampshire.'

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Iowa, Looks, Voters, Third Place, Hampshire

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

topic: Past, Order, Iowa, Citizens United, New Hampshire

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

topic: Thinking, Ears, May, New Hampshire

If I were just to read briefing books or I were just to engage in the political back and forth, would I have heard what a big problem mental health is in New Hampshire? Would I have heard people say they're really worried about the impact on young people because New Hampshire has the highest tuition and debt problems in the country? i'm not sure I would have.

- Hillary Clinton

source: "Welcome to Hillary Clinton's classroom" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. April 22, 2015.

topic: Country, Book, Health, Briefing, Hampshire

A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.129, Penguin

topic: Team, Fall, School, Hampshire, New Hampshire

Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and children to town in the boat for ice cream ... And I realized there was nobody in the boat to help me dock the boat, handle the ropes, do anything ... And I looked up and there was Mitt Romney. So he pulled me in, he tied up the boat for me. He rescued me just as he's going to rescue this great country.

- J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

source: "Bill Marriott: Mitt Romney Will Rescue America’s Yacht ... From Indeterminate Peril, Apparently" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2012.

topic: Summer, Country, Children, New Hampshire

I'm a kid from New Hampshire who's pretty normal.

- Eliza Coupe

source: Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 5, 2011.

topic: Kids, Normal, Hampshire, New Hampshire

I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at times. They call me Snappy Bear. That's from New Hampshire. My dad's called Crazy, my mother's Happy - it's a whole thing.

- Eliza Coupe

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

topic: Mother, Dad, Crazy, Hampshire, New Hampshire

In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.

- Dick Gephardt

topic: Light, Iowa, Tuesday, Dakota, Hampshire

What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of a place. In the deliberate, simple staging ... in which eight radiantly clean-scrubbed performers embody 60 different people against a bare-bones set, 'Laramie' often brings to mind 'Our Town,' the beloved Thornton Wilder study of life, love and death in parochial New Hampshire.

- Ben Brantley

topic: Team, Love Life, Simple, Staging, Our Town

First there was the New Hampshire primary, and we had nearly a year leading up to it. And now, look! Three primaries in one weekend! How many of these things are they going to have?

- Ed Helms

topic: Weekend, Years, Firsts, Hampshire, New Hampshire

Tastykakes are just another of the many advantages of living in Jersey. They’re made in Philly and shipped to Trenton in all their fresh squishiness. I read once that 439,000 Butterscotch Krimpets are baked every day. And not a heck of a lot of them find their way to New Hampshire. All that snow and scenery and what good does it do you without Tastykakes?

- Janet Evanovich

source: Janet Evanovich (2010). “Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

topic: Snow, Doe, Way, Butterscotch, Hampshire

What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty...You're the state where the shot heard round the world in Lexington and Concord.

- Michele Bachmann

topic: Liberty, World, Common, Lexington, New Hampshire

He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Cat, Home, New Hampshire

From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: New York, Freedom, Mountain, Soul Force, July 4th 1776

That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.

- Lee Child

topic: Despair, Towns, Needs, New Hampshire

Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!

- John Irving

source: John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”

topic: Moving, Hampshire, Hotel, New Hampshire

I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

- Barbra Streisand

topic: Falling In Love, Color, House, Hampshire, New Hampshire

People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.

- John Sununu

topic: Issues, People, Hampshire, New Hampshire

From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Cutting, Race, Class, Tax Cuts, New Hampshire

Called on the people of New Hampshire . . . to confess before God their aggravated transgressions and to implore His pardon and forgiveness through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ . . . [t]hat the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ may be made known to all nations, pure and undefiled religion universally prevail, and the earth be fill with the glory of the Lord.

- Josiah Bartlett

topic: Jesus, People, Earth, Aggravated, New Hampshire

We all love each other, Ange," I said impatiently, hating this whole conversation. "No, not like this," she went on relentlessly. "Fang loves you."......My mouth dropped open. How does she know this stuff? "Forget it! No one's getting married!" I hissed. "Not in New Hampshire or anywhere else! Not in a box, not with a fox! Now go to sleep, before I kill you! Oh yeah, like I got any sleep after that. - pg 35

- James Patterson

topic: Hate, Love You, Sleep, New Hampshire

Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York! And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House, Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!

- Howard Dean

topic: New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Dakota, South Dakota

For me to win at New Hampshire, first of all, is more than a stretch and more than a dream. This is probably one of my worst places.

- Matt Kenseth

topic: Dream, Winning, Firsts, New Hampshire

I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I'm wondering if these prices are legitimate.

- Judd Gregg

topic: Thinking, Car, Upset, Hampshire, New Hampshire

The FBI wants Apple to write software code to help it break into the iPhone. Apple doesn't want to say this. Andrew Crocker, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, a digital civil rights group, says the government can't make you say what you don't believe. He looks to a Supreme Court case that began in New Hampshire.

- Laura Sydell

source: "Apple's First Amendment Argument". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 26, 2016.

topic: Believe, Writing, Iphone, Court Cases, Hampshire

No one ever expect me to get in the race. They didn't think I would get on the debate stage. I did. They didn't think I'd do well in New Hampshire. I finished second. And so we went to South Carolina. In a short period of time later, two weeks ago people in South Carolina had no clue who I was.

- John Kasich

source: "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 21, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Race, Two, Hampshire, New Hampshire

We are having the 100th anniversary of 2015 year of the first in the nation primary in New Hampshire. And these voters take their responsibility very seriously. They like to kick the tires. They get the most up close and personal look in the entire arc of the campaign at the candidates. And debates are time consuming.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Responsibility, Years, Voters, Hampshire, Time Consuming

I think my major challenge, very frankly, is to maintain the traction, ... I've seen many campaigns here in the state of New Hampshire look good for a while, and then the air comes out of the balloon.

- John McCain

topic: Thinking, Air, Challenges, Traction, Hampshire

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

topic: Rocks, Cities, Rivers, New Hampshire

The budget caps were busted, mightily so. And we are reviewing with people like Judd Gregg from New Hampshire and others some budgetary reform measures that will reinstate - you know, possibly reinstate budgetary discipline. But the caps no longer - the caps, I guess they're there. But they didn't mean much.

- George W. Bush

topic: Humor, Mean, Discipline, Political Humor, New Hampshire

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

topic: Men, Land, Littles, New Hampshire

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

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

topic: Artist, Umbria, Years, New Hampshire

When [Bill Clinton] was running for president. I'll never forget this one. He was running in New Hampshire. He was not doing well. And he suddenly, over a weekend, rushed back to Little Rock to execute a guy who had killed a cop, but in the process, the policeman had shot him in the head and he was out of it. He didn't know today from tomorrow, good, evil, whatever. His lawyer begged - his lawyer was an old friend of Clinton.

- Nat Hentoff

source: Source: thedailyhatch.org

topic: Running, Weekend, Rocks, Little Rock, Hampshire

The big winner last night in New Hampshire - Senator John Kerry. He won 39 percent of the vote, which is pretty good, and begs the question, why the long face?

- Jay Leno

topic: Night, Long, Lasts, Hampshire, New Hampshire

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

topic: July, I Have A Dream Speech, Hampshire, Soul Force, July 4th 1776

The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with believing in gravity. And so he started the Babson Institute in New Boston, New Hampshire, which then moved to Gloucester. Each year they have a competition of one thousand dollars for one thousand words of an essay on gravity. That's the way they do it.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Father, Believe, Boston, Hampshire, Gloucester

At the time, The Hotel New Hampshire was John Irving's favorite adaptation of his work, which meant a lot to all of us who worked on that movie.It's amazing to me that that was a studio movie. That was a summer studio release! If that doesn't tell you how much the business has changed, nothing will.

- Rob Lowe

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Summer, Adaptation, Release, Hampshire, New Hampshire

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

topic: Guitar, People, Office, New Hampshire

Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at least it's giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states.

- Jay Leno

topic: Philosophical, Loss, Iowa, Hampshire, New Hampshire

I have such amazing memories [about The Hotel New Hampshire movie], because Tony Richardson was such an amazing director, and the subject matter was so bizarre, and yet it was the most sought-after part at that moment. And then it had the good fortune to come out on the same day as Splash.

- Rob Lowe

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Memories, Directors, Matter, Hampshire, New Hampshire