Top 7 Plymouth Quotes - Quoted Daily

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

William Bradford

Father, Ocean, Plymouth

Nathaniel Morton, William Bradford, Thomas Prince, Edward Winslow (1669). “New-England's Memorial”, p.23

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

William M. Evarts

Rocks, Plymouth, Knees

Quoted in Louisville Courier-Journal, 4 July 1913.

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

Wendell Phillips

Rocks, America, Plymouth

Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.231

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Wise, Netherlands, Plymouth

Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem.

Aaron Eckhart

Ecosystems, Cockroaches, Plymouth

If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Winning, Doe, Plymouth

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.54, Courier Corporation