These new Hampshire quotes will inspire you. New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging new Hampshire quotes, new Hampshire sayings, and new Hampshire proverbs.
Best New Hampshire Quotes
- “It’s so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio – from the ‘Growing Pains’/’What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’ era, because he was superhot – and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me.” ~ Eliza Coupe
- “I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul’s School. From there, I moved to London.” ~ Alexis Denisof
- “New Hampshire’s one of my favorite places.” ~ Donald Trump
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“No Republican has ever won South Carolina and Iowa or New Hampshire, as Trump has, without going on to win the nomination.” ~ Chuck Todd
- “You have a Kelly Ayotte, who doesn’t want to talk about Trump, but I’m beating her in the polls by a lot.I don’t know Kelly Ayotte. I know she’s given me no support, zero support, and yet I’m leading her in the polls. And I’m doing very well in New Hampshire.” ~ Donald Trump
- “After [Donald] Trump has won in New Hampshire and South Carolina, Republicans are crazy and are about to blow the White House if we don`t rally to stop him.” ~ Haley Barbour
- “I’m not cutting services. But I’m cutting spending. But I may cut Department of Education. I believe common core is a very bad thing. I believe that we should be lo – you know, educating our children from Iowa, from New Hampshire, from South Carolina, from California, from New York. I think that it should be local education.” ~ Donald Trump
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“I live in New Hampshire. We’re in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I’ve got beachfront property. You tell us up there, “By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,” and we say, “Your point is?”” ~ P. J. O’Rourke
- “Donald Trump singled out three particular states where he claimed there was, quote, “serious voter fraud” – Virginia, New Hampshire and California. Trump lost all three of those states.” ~ Audie Cornish
- “Republican Scott Brown lost his bid for Senate in New Hampshire last night, two years after he was voted out as Senator in Massachusetts. When asked what he was planning to do next, he said, ‘Are they still looking for a mayor in Toronto?'” ~ Jimmy Fallon
- “Former New York Governor George Pataki may enter the race for president. It’s not definite, but he tweeted that he’ll announce his 2016 plans on May 28 in New Hampshire. Well, what’s he gonna do, go to New Hampshire to say he’s NOT running? That’s like getting down on one knee and saying, ‘I think it’s time to see other people.'” ~ Jimmy Fallon
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“It’s not the Olympics. It’s Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I’m part of.” ~ Christa McAuliffe
- “I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he’s a baker.” ~ Vincent Kartheiser
- “I think that, that it would be hard for New Hampshire to vote for somebody who was a fundamentalist minister, affable as he is. He does seem to actually want to write, for example, a prohibition against abortion into the Constitution , which Ronald Reagan, for all his talking about it, never tried to do one time.” ~ Mike Huckabee
- “I’ve been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what’s going to happen with our country in the future.” ~ Jackie Mason
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“I think he intends to run for president… I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.” ~ Pat Toomey
- “We had no religion at all, but we were Jews in New Hampshire, and my sister – who is now a rabbi – said it best: We were, like, the only Jews in Bedford, New Hampshire, as well as the only Democrats, so we just kind of associated those two things together. My dad raised us to believe that paying taxes is an honor.” ~ Roseanne Barr
- “I met my wife on Spring break when I was in college. I was at the University of Notre Dame. She was at the University of New Hampshire. I bumped into her in Florida and told her the next day that I was going to marry her and 20 or something years later here we are.” ~ Nicholas Sparks
- “Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.” ~ Daniel Webster
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“There’s such an odd, eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth, New Hampshire. I don’t think I could avoid not coming out of there with a pretty good sense of humor.” ~ Eliza Coupe
- “Because the people of New Hampshire take their responsibilities as citizens of the Republic seriously, they keep it interesting for candidates who, believe it or not, can get a little tired of the mannered, predictable, and unimaginative qualities that typically afflict modern political campaigns.” ~ John McCain
- “I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.” ~ Steven Tyler
- “A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies.” ~ Thomas Starr King
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“The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.” ~ Robert Frost
- “The FBI wants Apple to write software code to help it break into the iPhone. Apple doesn’t want to say this. Andrew Crocker, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, a digital civil rights group, says the government can’t make you say what you don’t believe. He looks to a Supreme Court case that began in New Hampshire.” ~ Laura Sydell
- “I’m originally from a town called Ipswich. I currently live in Newburyport. It’s a port city, so I’m right on a river. It’s really close to New Hampshire; I can pretty much throw a rock. I like where I’m from.” ~ Melissa Ferrick
- “No one ever expect me to get in the race. They didn’t think I would get on the debate stage. I did. They didn’t think I’d do well in New Hampshire. I finished second. And so we went to South Carolina. In a short period of time later, two weeks ago people in South Carolina had no clue who I was.” ~ John Kasich
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“I think my major challenge, very frankly, is to maintain the traction, … I’ve seen many campaigns here in the state of New Hampshire look good for a while, and then the air comes out of the balloon.” ~ John McCain
- “We are having the 100th anniversary of 2015 year of the first in the nation primary in New Hampshire. And these voters take their responsibility very seriously. They like to kick the tires. They get the most up close and personal look in the entire arc of the campaign at the candidates. And debates are time consuming.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “Not only are we going to New Hampshire … we’re going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we’re going to California and Texas and New York! And we’re going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we’re going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House, Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!” ~ Howard Dean
- “I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I’m wondering if these prices are legitimate.” ~ Judd Gregg
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“For me to win at New Hampshire, first of all, is more than a stretch and more than a dream. This is probably one of my worst places.” ~ Matt Kenseth
- “Called on the people of New Hampshire . . . to confess before God their aggravated transgressions and to implore His pardon and forgiveness through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ . . . [t]hat the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ may be made known to all nations, pure and undefiled religion universally prevail, and the earth be fill with the glory of the Lord.” ~ Josiah Bartlett
- “First there was the New Hampshire primary, and we had nearly a year leading up to it. And now, look! Three primaries in one weekend! How many of these things are they going to have?” ~ Ed Helms
- “What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of a place. In the deliberate, simple staging … in which eight radiantly clean-scrubbed performers embody 60 different people against a bare-bones set, ‘Laramie’ often brings to mind ‘Our Town,’ the beloved Thornton Wilder study of life, love and death in parochial New Hampshire.” ~ Ben Brantley
- “In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn’t have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.” ~ Dick Gephardt
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“I do have a nickname with my family; I’m called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at times. They call me Snappy Bear. That’s from New Hampshire. My dad’s called Crazy, my mother’s Happy – it’s a whole thing.” ~ Eliza Coupe
- “I’m a kid from New Hampshire who’s pretty normal.” ~ Eliza Coupe
- “What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty…You’re the state where the shot heard round the world in Lexington and Concord.” ~ Michele Bachmann
- “I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.” ~ Barbra Streisand
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“That should be your town motto. It’s all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.” ~ Lee Child
- “From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and children to town in the boat for ice cream … And I realized there was nobody in the boat to help me dock the boat, handle the ropes, do anything … And I looked up and there was Mitt Romney. So he pulled me in, he tied up the boat for me. He rescued me just as he’s going to rescue this great country.” ~ J. W.
- “He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. “If man could be crossed with the cat,” said Twain, “it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.” There’s always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.” ~ Mark Twain
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“From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that.” ~ William J. Clinton
- “Is there any other democracy where the voters are as spoiled as they are in the United States? Especially, of course, in certain states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire, where the old joke is literally true about the citizens who say they haven’t yet formed an opinion about a candidate because they’ve only met the fellow a few times.” ~ Michael Kinsley
- “Tastykakes are just another of the many advantages of living in Jersey. They’re made in Philly and shipped to Trenton in all their fresh squishiness. I read once that 439,000 Butterscotch Krimpets are baked every day. And not a heck of a lot of them find their way to New Hampshire. All that snow and scenery and what good does it do you without Tastykakes?” ~ Janet Evanovich
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“People in New Hampshire know that I’ll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.” ~ John Sununu
- “Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria.” ~ Jane Hirshfield
- “We want Ollie to go to all the different events and see Republicans and see Bernie Sanders and just kind of experience it and be able to make up his own mind for what he wants, none of his friends know anything about politics. Granted, they’re only 9, they don’t vote for a while. They just completely don’t understand why are all these people coming to New Hampshire, why this is so important.” ~ Sarah Wright
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“Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We’re screwed down here-for life!” ~ John Irving
- “Yeah, I had it all mapped out actually. Seriously. I wrote it down. I said, ‘When I’m the head coach of the Eagles, I’m going to make sure I get that guy on my team.’ And then guy next to me was like, ‘You’re only the offensive coordinator at New Hampshire.’ I said, ‘Don’t worry about it. Minor details. But it’s going to work.'” ~ Chip Kelly
- “The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before…. They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.” ~ Lucy Larcom
- “There wasn’t a big tradition of comedy at Dartmouth. More than that, there wasn’t really anything artsy going on in Hanover, or even in New Hampshire. The cool thing about the school is that there’s nothing for people to watch, so if you were to do a play or a sketch or an improv troupe, it was always packed. There’s nowhere else for anyone to go. But there was no comedy.” ~ Mindy Kaling
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“Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking – plenty of it.” ~ Joseph Monninger
- “I live in a beautiful part of the world – western New Hampshire along the Baker River – and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.” ~ Joseph Monninger
- “The budget caps were busted, mightily so. And we are reviewing with people like Judd Gregg from New Hampshire and others some budgetary reform measures that will reinstate – you know, possibly reinstate budgetary discipline. But the caps no longer – the caps, I guess they’re there. But they didn’t mean much.” ~ George W. Bush
- “Here is a good bill that’s needed in America. If it’s unconstitutional, let the U.S. Supreme Court reverse its opinion and get in line with New Hampshire and that will make it constitutional.” ~ Meldrim Thomson, Jr.
- “As one who was never terribly enamored of Hillary Clinton’s personality to start with, I grudgingly admit to enjoying her recent near-tears transformation. Plenty of critics concede her rarely seen emotion was heartfelt, but also that it was due to the 20-hour-day rigors of the campaign trail, making her perhaps the only candidate ever to win the New Hampshire primary because she needed a nap. Still, it was refreshing to watch her punch through the icy crust of her own phoniness, so that the molten core of artificiality could gush forth.” ~ Matt Labash
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“The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.” ~ Nate Silver
- “The big winner last night in New Hampshire – Senator John Kerry. He won 39 percent of the vote, which is pretty good, and begs the question, why the long face?” ~ Jay Leno
- “Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, ‘Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ‘ He said at least it’s giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states.” ~ Jay Leno
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“So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “I’m dealing with very, very talented people, smart people, good people. And I think they will be competing. We still have a competition. I had great victory yesterday. South Carolina was amazing. New Hampshire was amazing. The size of the victories, I think, were incredible.” ~ Donald Trump
- “I worked hard at that through most of the ’80s, and in 1990 my house burned in New Hampshire, and my studios and my offices. I had to decide at what level to rebuild, and I decided that I was going to stop trying to be all things to all people, and just go back to playing the guitar.” ~ Tom Rush
