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Quotes About New Jersey

While it may seem a bit antithetical to use quite so many "naughty words" in an etiquette book, I can assure you that I would never use curse words for shock value alone or to prop up a needy joke. We live in a world in which one Real Housewife of New Jersey seriously admonished another to "show some fuckin' class!" Enough said.
~ Celia Rivenbark
A chastened Wilson wrote a letter of apology on the official stationery of the New Jersey executive mansion, expressing himself "very much mortified" by his mistake.
~ James M. McPherson
I'm a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teacher's union.
~ Chris Christie
When I go to Lockheed or General Motors... all those union members are gun owners. They believe in responsible gun ownership and responsible gun safety, but all those guys are gun owners, and that's not necessarily an issue in New Jersey.
~ Marc Veasey
It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.
~ Chris Christie
From Picatinny Arsenal to our great universities, New Jersey is leading the way to ensure our nation is secure and our service members are protected with the best possible equipment.
~ Mikie Sherrill
In New Jersey, we won in '95, but after that for four years we never had a sniff at it. The next thing you know we went on a run of three Stanley Cup Finals in four years in 2000, 2001 and 2003.
~ Martin Brodeur
I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.
~ Buzz Aldrin
I'd seen so many people become stagnant in New Jersey - I had this fear I'd just stay there. They'd come out of high school, get a job, get married, have kids and die in Jersey. I wanted more.
~ Frankie Valli
The people of New Jersey stepped up. They shared in the sacrifice. You know what else they did? They rewarded politicians who lead instead of politicians who pandered.
~ Chris Christie
It was sort of assumed, from the time I was born, really, that I would go to college. That's sort of the way that Jewish families in New Jersey handled things; that was the norm.
~ Alan Guth
New Jersey is very big. There are different areas of New Jersey. There is North New Jersey. There is like the center. There are a lot of actors from New Jersey that don't speak with a New Jersey accent.
~ Janet Montgomery
Part of my job is to make sure the Northeast is part of our defense industrial base, and New Jersey has always played a role.
~ Rodney Frelinghuysen
I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.
~ Jonathan Ames
I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a woman on the cover.
~ Adriana Trigiani
I don't apologize for looking after New Jersey's interests. That's an obligation that I'll always keep.
~ Rodney Frelinghuysen
Clara kam in New Jersey zur Welt, wo ihre Eltern gelandet waren, nachdem sie aus Armenien geflohen waren. Als sie noch ein Kind war, zogen sie nach San Francisco, Mission District. Als junge Frau hatte sie ein Geheimnis, das sie selten jemandem verriet: Sie war schon einmal verheiratet gewesen, doch ihr Mann war im Krieg gefallen. Als sie Paul Jobs das erste Mal traf, war sie bereit, ein neues Leben zu beginnen.
~ Walter Isaacson
The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
~ Harlan Coben
A New York doctor has finished a five year study on what smells have the biggest effect on New Yorkers. The smell New Yorkers like the most: vanilla. The smell New Yorkers like the least: New Jersey.
~ leno jay iii
Not a good night for President Obama. He lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and he's not doing good in Afghanistan either.
~ leno jay v
From the look on your face, I'd say you know him. I nodded. Sold him a cannoli when I was in high school. Connie grunted. Honey, half of all the women in New Jersey have sold him their cannoli
~ Janet Evanovich
The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics. Connie Rosolli
~ Janet Evanovich
Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.
~ Janet Evanovich
Damn, I thought everyone carried a gun in New Jersey!!!
~ Janet Evanovich