Top 100 Connecticut Quotes

Dwayne Betts is the kind of man who should be receiving awards from the Connecticut bar. Instead, he hasn’t been admitted.
Bari Weiss
My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.
Michael Bergin
A robust, sustainably funded unemployment insurance system is Connecticut’s most important tool for keeping our families out of poverty and our economy in motion during a recession.
Ned Lamont
The success we are seeing in Connecticut’s education system is credited to the amazing teachers, faculty, staff, volunteers, and parents who dedicate themselves to the next generation of students.
Ned Lamont
I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Steve Young
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
In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
M. Stanton Evans
One of our books has been made into a musical, ‘The Great American Mousical,’ which I directed at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. And another, ‘Simeon’s Gift,’ has been adapted for a symphony orchestra and five performers. I’m also a very proud member of the board of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Julie Andrews
When I was a little girl, I grew up in Connecticut. Ed and Lorraine Warren’s home was not too far from mine. ‘The Conjuring’ films are based on them; Ed and Lorraine were real people who made a museum in their home.
Lydia Hearst
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
I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers ha

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.
Christopher Dodd
I was born in New York, but I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut – that’s where I went to school. I remember begging my way into choir in the 3rd grade, because you’re not supposed to get in until 4th grade.
Caroline Polachek
Well, I’ve done a lot of strips since I’ve been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.
Bill Griffith
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 think I live in the land of high expectations after playing at Connecticut.
Maya Moore
One of the smartest investments we can make in Connecticut is in job training programs.
Chris Murphy
We know working families are the backbone of our state. If they are not financially stable, Connecticut will never be.
Ned Lamont
I practice a lot. I practice in the winter when it’s cold in Connecticut – a lot. I practice in my bedroom on the carpet – a lot. For all the practice I do, I should be a better golfer than I am.
Stuart Scott
I don’t want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don’t want to look like Oklahoma, I don’t want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that’s not to diss anybody else.
Rick Perry
New York is the center of the world. I grew up in Connecticut, outside of the city, and my father commuted to the city for work.
Courtney A. Kemp
If Connecticut is haunted then New Haven is the weirdest of the towns that is haunted.
Leigh Bardugo
I just try to be the same kid from New York and Greenwich, Connecticut, who is just lame and watches TV and Netflix.
Donovan Mitchell
Connecticut is proud of the human rights legacy of Thomas Dodd, and the work of the University of Connecticut to build on that legacy through the Dodd Human Rights Impact initiative. We are also proud of our Commission on Human and Civil Rights as a tireless defender of the equal rights for all of our community members.
Ned Lamont
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.
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
In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven’t seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.
Margaret Spellings
I’m not handled. I’m not crafted by slick, high-priced consultants. I’m a real person, a genuine person, a struggling person in Connecticut.
Lee Whitnum
I was born in 1968 and grew up in my grandmother’s house in suburban Connecticut, where I was convinced a ghost named Virgil lived in the attic.
Jennifer McMahon
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
Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.
Natalie Babbitt
Robin Leach is a guy who, when he has the time, goes quietly to his house in Connecticut and sits looking into the fire with a good glass of red wine in his hand. And when I wake up in the morning, I wink at myself because I like me – I know who I am.
Robin Leach
It always is a battle for a Republican in Connecticut, even one who’s a moderate like I am, and one who’s an independent thinker.
Linda McMahon
Here in Connecticut, we continue to take the necessary steps to save lives and protect loved ones and we are calling on all elected officials to do the same.
Ned Lamont
In Connecticut, we have a vibrant history of advocating to ensure our workers are treated fairly and given the rights and protections they deserve. Still, we need to do more to protect all American workers.
Elizabeth Esty
One of my top priorities during the COVID-19 pandemic has been to minimize learning disruptions for Connecticut students and see that every K-12 student has the educational technologies they need to thrive in school.
Ned Lamont
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
To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown.
Molly Ivins
I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.
John Rowland
I have said from the beginning, I would spend what it would take for the people of Connecticut to know who I am and what I stand for.
Linda McMahon
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’m from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.
Cassie Ventura
As someone who is displaced - I left London almost fift

As someone who is displaced – I left London almost fifteen years ago to make Connecticut my home – I am drawn to stories about people who don’t belong, whether physically or emotionally, and who find their families of choice in their friends.
Jane Green
I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
Dana Goodyear
New York and Connecticut belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut carbon emissions, and New York City has been a leader in energy efficiency.
Frances Beinecke
I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you’ll always find me, summer or winter.
Candace Bushnell
Connecticut has been a leading state in ensuring that our laws protect women, and that includes the right to equal pay for equal work.
Ned Lamont
My wife’s name, Rebecca Lobo, is on sandwiches and street signs in New England. It adorns the arena rafters at the University of Connecticut, where she first became a basketball star. Her high school in Massachusetts is on Rebecca Lobo Way, a nice trump card to play at reunions.
Steve Rushin
Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there – I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.
Candace Bushnell