Rhode Island famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 -
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 -
I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island.
-- Billy Bush -
Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.
-- Bobby Jindal -
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 -
Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.
-- Charlie Day -
The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.
-- Donald L. Carcieri -
The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!
-- Donald L. Carcieri -
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
-- Ezra Stiles -
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 -
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 -
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 meditate, and when I do, Prince Harry appears in my subconscious and meditates with me. It's a little strange but I don't think there's anything I can do about it. Sometimes he's not the only one; the other day it was me, Prince Harry, the Dalai Lama, Mr. Rogers, Coco the gorilla, and George Clooney. We were all floating above the earth looking down at the continents as they passed. George Clooney suggested I visit Providence, Rhode Island. The Dalai Lama sighed deeply and said he'd like to visit Tibet. Poor Dalai Lama.
-- Kristin Cashore -
I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.
-- Lincoln Chafee -
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 -
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 -
I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail.
-- Seth MacFarlane -
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 -
I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.
-- Stephen Sprouse
