logo

Quotes About Connecticut

There was a Dana Phelps with a son named Brandon, but they didn't live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The Phelpses resided in a rather tony section of Greenwich, Connecticut. Brandon's father had been a big-time hedge fund manager. Beaucoup bucks. He died when he was forty-one. The obituary gave no cause of death. Kat looked for a charity—people often requested donations made to a heart disease or cancer or whatever cause—but there was nothing listed.
~ Harlan Coben
Cities and towns throughout central and northwest Connecticut have strong industrial histories and are now in the process of transitioning into new sources of economic growth. I'm doing what I can to be a strong partner in these efforts.
~ Elizabeth Esty
I live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
Final passage of the American Rescue Plan is a game changer for Connecticut and the entire nation.
~ Ned Lamont
From day one, our administration promised to streamline government services and make interacting with the residents of Connecticut much easier.
~ Ned Lamont
We have an aging infrastructure in Connecticut that greatly impacts the daily lives of our families and the development of our businesses. Modernizing our infrastructure would employ thousands - it would improve the quality for our residents and advance us towards the state we deserve to be.
~ Ned Lamont
Representative DeLauro has always been a fighter in Congress on behalf of all the residents of Connecticut.
~ Ned Lamont
I came to Southbury because I wanted to live a more simple life. When I was a child, I saw lots of movies about happy people living in Connecticut. And ever since then, that was where I wanted to live. I thought it would be like the movies. And it really is. It's exactly what I hoped it would be.
~ Polly Bergen
I am continuing to explore a run in the Senate from Connecticut, absolutely exploring it. In fact, I would say exploring it intensely.
~ Lawrence Kudlow
Route 95 in Connecticut and New York is basically a series of construction areas masquerading as an interstate highway.
~ Harlan Coben
I was the first WWE developmental talent. When I moved to Connecticut to start training, I had no idea what wrestling was other than what I saw as a fan.
~ Mark Henry
My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a faculty position in the Physics Department at Yale, and so the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut.
~ Carol W. Greider
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
I was born in St. Louis; I lived there for three weeks and then my father graduated from St. Louis University, so we all got in the car and split. I don't really remember much. I grew up in Connecticut most of my life and then four years in Germany. My father worked for a helicopter company, so we went over there.
~ Kevin Nealon
Connecticut has a proud tradition of manufacturing going back to the days of Eli Whitney.
~ Elizabeth Esty
I was so affected by the tragic shootings that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, as we all were.
~ James Langevin
One of the smartest investments we can make in Connecticut is in job training programs.
~ Chris Murphy
The peaceful transfer of power is a central tenet of American democracy, and Connecticut stands ready to aid in the protection of our country.
~ Ned Lamont
Connecticut has always taken pride in our leadership role when it comes to climate, and when we can combine that with a stronger economy, fast transit systems, and regional cooperation, that's a win for all of us.
~ Ned Lamont
The Environment Committee's leadership in advancing Connecticut's implementation of TCI-P is a positive step in our state's comeback and our commitment to a cleaner environment and modernized transportation system and infrastructure.
~ Ned Lamont
For the sake of our businesses and the sake of our jobs, we must provide Connecticut with a modernized transportation system that works, which requires a sustainable, recurring funding source.
~ Ned Lamont
I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old.
~ Linda Evans
Gibbs is perhaps the most brilliant person most people have never heard of. Modest to the point of near-invisibility, he passed virtually the whole of his life, apart from three years spent studying in Europe, within a three-block area bounded by his house and the Yale campus in New Haven, Connecticut. For his first ten years at Yale he didn't even bother to draw a salary.
~ Bill Bryson
I am really excited to join the Connecticut Sun.
~ Anne Donovan