Maine

"As Maine goes, so goes the nation."

"To the memory of Dr. Olfert Dapper, who saw a wild unicorn in the Maine woods in 1673, and for Robert Nathan, who has seen one or two in Los Angeles."

"They were walking along a roadway of great slabs of stone set down one after another, the beginning and end of which they could take in at a glance, a road rising from and heading toward nowhere now. "You can't get there from here," William said, using a Down East accent. "Anymore." Maine, they thought of Maine, then. Evidently this truncated road could still carry them as far away and as long ago as that."

"There was a young lady from Gloucester Who complained that her parents both bossed her, So she ran off to Maine. Did her parents complain? Not at all — they were glad to have lost her."

"Trump's statements disparaging immigrants who have come to this country legally are particularly unhelpful. Maine has benefited from people from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and, increasingly, Africa — including our friends from Somalia."

"You can't get there from here."

"I will not listen to childcare lectures from a man who put his daughter in a box and shipped her to Maine."

"I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine."

"If Maine’s ruling [in Bickford v. Bradeen] stands, it sets a precedent that any judge, armed with a “cult expert,” can forbid a parent from raising a child in their faith. It is a dangerous conflation of secular prejudice with judicial authority."

"When people asked me in a RV park, "What do you do?" I just said, "I'm a retired state employee from Maine.""

"The Southwest was spectacular, but I have no interest in moving there. North Carolina is beautiful in spring and fall. But I can say I didn't find anyplace I'd rather live than Maine."

"My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine."

"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."