47 Maine Quotes for You to Enjoy

Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter. Paul Theroux

Winter Soul Joy Summer More Maine Apparent

The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness. Alexander Chee

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Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities. Chellie Pingree

Good Opportunities Energy Those Steady Rates Economic Maine Advantages Beyond Renewable Renewable Energy Predictable Capitalize Electric Extend Position

I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine. Parker Stevenson

You Dark Find Only Maine Along Looked Juan California Islands Green Blue San Granite Coast Palette

In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program. Bill Dedman

In my home state of Maine, we've seen out-of-state groups with anonymous donors spend millions of dollars to campaign against issues that don't fit their agenda. Chellie Pingree

Home Seen State Spend Maine Anonymous Issues Dollars Campaign Fit Donors Against Agenda Home State Groups Millions Millions Of Dollars

In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national level, Congress should follow Maine's example by empowering the voices of small donors. Chellie Pingree

Money Example National Congress Down Corporate System Follow Small Clean Voices Maine Empowering Donors Legislators Interest Turn Elections Should Fortunate Special Special Interest Level

Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded. Chellie Pingree

People Philosophy Tend Maine Open-Minded Fair

When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the pharmaceutical companies to negotiate - I was told by many people that it was too big an idea, and we couldn't overcome opposition from the drug companies. Chellie Pingree

When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine. David Brenner

Funny Girl Looking Maine Knows Go Bar Capital Who

It was only after a while, after photographing mines and clear-cutting of forests in Maine, that I realized I was looking at the components of photography itself. Photography uses paper made from trees, water, metals, and chemistry. In a way, I was looking at all these things that feed into photography. David Maisel

At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter. David Walton

Winter Seriously Considering Point Maine Dead Northern Production Playing

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married. George J. Mitchell

I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine. George J. Mitchell

Life Law Living Focused Born Small Small Town Maine Town Fairly Practicing Still Goal Specific Enjoyed Raised

During the summers, when I'm in Maine, I work at a desk that's located beyond all tendrilly wi-fi reaches. It takes me a few days to break the constant e-mail-checking habit, then I find I don't want to check my e-mail ever, and often don't for days. Heidi Julavits

Work Me Few Summers Located Find Constant Habit Maine Takes Check Days Beyond Often Want Break Then Ever Desk

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing. Hope Davis

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There's a reason I live in the Maine woods, where nobody knows what I do for a living. I think you can be better if someone who's coming to see you perform has no idea who you really are. Janet McTeer

You Better Live Living Think See No Idea Someone Maine Idea Perform Nobody Knows Coming Where Woods Really Reason Who

Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win. John Baldacci

Win Critics Maine Wrong Red Red Sox Proved Just Sox Compete

I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families. John Baldacci

Needs Respect People Diversity Nation Young Think State Able Having Crucial Maine Openness Known Because Families Want Oldest

It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include. John Sexton

Beautiful Looking Slightly Those Out Find Some Vivid Had Maine Glass Studying Were Camera Square Green Trying Quite Just Moving Ground Inches Include Elements Right Rained

My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog. Kate Christensen

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I did 12 shows in 13 weeks at a summer theater in Maine where we were paid $35 a week. After taxes and $25 for room and board, I had enough money for a pack of cigarettes and a bowl of lobster bisque. Martin Landau

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