Quotes About Vermont

Vermont's landscape of forests, farms and communities - and their associated outdoor recreation opportunities - are a big reason why people choose to visit, live and work in Vermont.

Visiting Ireland reminded me of when I first arrived in Vermont. I thought, This is home.

The Vermont Supreme Court serves a vital role in protecting our state's Constitution, upholding our laws, ensuring fairness in our systems and the accountability of our institutions.

Engineers are problem solvers, and crucial to strengthening the economy, making Vermont more affordable, and protecting our most vulnerable.

I hadn't slept with anybody in Vermont except a little red-haired girl I met at a party on the first weekend.

Historically, the Western Abenakis opposed all English-speaking Europeans. Their homeland—present-day Vermont, New Hampshire, and southern Quebec—lay between areas of English and French control.

Here in the northeastern corner of Vermont, there are probably invisible signs posted all around his farm, like the code left by hoboes traveling through the country in the 1930s. "Trust this man," they say. "Good for a night's lodging, for first aid, for food, and for sanctuary.

I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon.

Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.

In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.

I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.

In 1849 a Titusville sawmill owner, Ebenezer Brewer, had sent to his son Francis Brewer, a young physician practicing in Vermont, five gallons of Seneca oil from the creek that ran below his sawmill, "with the assurance," his son said later, "that it possessed great medicinal and curative properties.

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.

Where I grew up in Vermont, there is no municipal garbage removal. You have to bring your trash to the dump every weekend. Something like three hours on Saturday morning, the entire town goes in. It is actually a very efficient place to do politics. I would go to the garbage dump, get petitions signed, give out literature, talk to voters.

Vermonters know that if we all pull in the same direction - if we make the economy and affordability our focus and work hard to make change - we can chart a course to a more prosperous future and make a difference in the lives of Vermonters.

Cadence Sinclair Eastman. I live in Burlington, Vermont, with Mummy and three dogs.

Norway...looked to Roosevelt "as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe....It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the experiment of having a king.

Somewhere, I am sure, a calm, quiet place awaits me where I may do something worthwhile again. Another island, perhaps. Or a little cottage near the sea, far removed from developers, removed from Lapham. And, there is always Vermont. For everyone, in every time of despairing optimism, there is always Vermont.

I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.

He glanced down at his wrist-watch, felt a pang of loneliness crease across his heart. For a single second, he wondered what time it was back home in Vermont, and he had trouble remembering whether it was earlier or later. Then he dismissed this unfair thought when he realized that if he did not hurry, he would be late for the beginning of that morning's proceedings.

I'm moving into a yurt in the woods near my parents' home in Vermont.

I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

Spinney chose to drop it. No one outside Vermont could be expected to understand a setting where starlit skies, complete silence, and empty downtown streets at four in the morning were the norm. Except maybe far out west. He'd heard that even a Vermonter could get lonely in Wyoming.