Quotes with mayflower

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• I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.

  William Lyon Phelps
  American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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• My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.

  Will Rogers
  American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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• The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.

  Speech, September 2004

  Carol Moseley Braun
  American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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• The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.

  Buzz Aldrin
  American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• generations
• mayflower
• community
• knowledge
• venturing
• plymouth

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