52 Rhode Island Quotes
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Famous Rhode Island Quotes
Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame. — George Wein
Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. — Mark Twain
Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan. — Charlie Day
South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum. — James L. Petigru
New Jersey I’d say is one of the top 50 states. — Theo Von
cause down the shore everything's all right — Bruce Springsteen
All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious. — Pearl S. Buck
I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town. — Emeril Lagasse
Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. — Bernie Taupin
South Carolina is a great place to be from. — Tim Scott
I'm so dope I'm illegal in 55 states — Si Robertson
A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages. — Hugo Grotius
I'm from where the real hustlers pile dough, the home of Rich Rich Porter, Azie, Alpo. — Big L
The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected. — Tim Bishop
I grew up, a kid in New Jersey. — Jared Kushner
Rhode Quotes
The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service. — Donald L. Carcieri
Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations. — Lincoln Chafee
Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say. — Charles Gounod
I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades. — Duffy Daugherty
All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past. — Peter Thiel
The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island! — Donald L. Carcieri
The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me. — Anthony Quinn
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you. — Martial
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. — Ezra Stiles
I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design. — Stephen Sprouse
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More Rhode Island Quotes
When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. — Sheldon Whitehouse
Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere. — Sheldon Whitehouse
Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home. — Philip Gourevitch
There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942 Battle of Midway - but have never been able to produce an American victory. — Robert Cowley
Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a great American rogue, Mayor Buddy Cianci—a paragon of charisma and corruption. — Philip Gourevitch
I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at times. I’m sensual. I’m not overtly sexual. I am so many things in so many ways and I will never see myself on screen. And the reason I will never see myself up on screen is because that does not translate with being black. — Viola Davis
This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman. — Jhumpa Lahiri
Lincoln Chafee, former governor of Rhode Island, announced he's running for president. Before he announced he's running, his wife went on Facebook and asked his staff if they remembered his password. Because if a Facebook password is too hard to remember, the launch codes for the nukes should be a piece of cake. — Jimmy Fallon
Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution. — Sheldon Whitehouse
Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here. — Charles Barkley
James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at the ocean. — Ann Wright
I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island. — Billy Bush
We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels. — Jerry Lawler
I did a lot of crazy gigs man. I hosted a Jack and Jill strip club in Woonsocket Rhode Island which is this tiny depressing fishing town, all Portuguese immigrants and it's just a humorless, dark town. — Joe Rogan
The fact that my students could be in a little college in a little college town on the coast of Rhode Island, and be connecting in other countries with other people, did open them up and empower them and their sense of being. Whether it affected their writing, it's hard to tell. — Adam Braver
No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now reigns in the ancient mart of Rhode Island, a place that, in its day, has been ranked amongst the most important ports along the whole line of our extended coast. — James F. Cooper
I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements. — Brian Selznick
I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary. — Lincoln Chafee
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