Top 70 East Coast Quotes

Words matter. These are the best East Coast Quotes from famous people such as Tony Shalhoub, Phillip Noyce, ASAP Ferg, Colin Firth, Kristi Noem, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I went to college on the East Coast in Portland, Maine.

I went to college on the East Coast in Portland, Maine.
Tony Shalhoub
Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast – and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.
Phillip Noyce
‘Going Back to Cali’ is one of my favorite songs because of all the East Coast – West Coast rivalry.
ASAP Ferg
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions… the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
Colin Firth
I’d rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.
Kristi Noem
Bound for Glory’ week was such a whirlwind. With it being filmed in Canada, it was really exciting for me. Although it was on the East Coast and I’m from the West Coast, still felt like I was kind of in my hometown, I don’t know.
Laurel Van Ness
I was born in Orange County – in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I’m sorry, I don’t rep California.
Michael B. Jordan
In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia.
Brad Thor
‘The Sopranos’ was a very East Coast show; ‘Heroes’ is more organically global.
Dania Ramirez
Every little pocket of Los Angeles County is almost like its own state. It has its own way of being and own way of feeling, and parts of it feel like the Midwest, and parts of it feel like the East Coast. It’s a rich tapestry.
Marcia Clark
We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.
Irwin Rose
I’m from the East Coast; I think about things dialectically sometimes – in other words, antagonistically. The rhythms that I think of are polyrhythmic, bouncy, loping. The way that I want to approach that is to get, like, a flat-footed Connecticut hard-core drummer to play these bouncy, loping polyrhythms.
David Longstreth
So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It’s very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn’t love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria… but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
Rachel Nichols
When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.
Olly Murs
The noble gases, which reside on the East Coast of the periodic table, are its aristocrats – detached and aloof, never bothering to interact with the rabble of common elements that make up the vast majority of the world.
Sam Kean
I grew up in Wicklow, near Roundwood. It’s a beautiful place on the east coast. That’s where I started riding bikes.
Charley Boorman
My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don’t know anything else, do you?
Michael Douglas
I don’t think that most of my peers in rock criticism are from the West Coast. I think most of them are from the East Coast.
Robert Christgau
I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
Sam Jaeger
I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I’m not a New Yorker at all, but I’m much happier in New York; I’ve always liked it better.
Dylan Walsh
I’m a first-born child of a Chinese immigrant family, I grew up on the East Coast. And I have to admit, I did not grow up around technology.
Aileen Lee
I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that for maybe two years or so, and it just wasn’t working for me at all.
Donald Ray Pollock
Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it’s more direct. What you see is what you get.
Angie Everhart
But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it’s where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
Rafael Palmeiro
Once our carrier fleet went all nuclear in 2005, we went from having two aircraft carrier homeports on the East Coast to one.
Ander Crenshaw
Because the Asian market is so omnivorous, it affects all the shark populations up and down the Central and South American coast, and to a certain extent the East Coast of the United States as well.
Peter Benchley
There’s a thing that happens to Midwesterners – we spend a lot of time talking about having a different set of rules about manners. I don’t know about ethics, but certainly about manners, what you would say and what you wouldn’t say. And that is not very East coast.
Theresa Rebeck
I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time.
Michael Douglas
I’m a real brother. I’m an East Coast dude. I have the experiences that I feel a lot of people who identify with me can relate to.
Rob Morgan
I definitely feel like people in the South are a little more raw. Our whole swag, the way we talk… When I go to the East Coast, people automatically know I’m not from there.
Megan Thee Stallion
My friends back from the East Coast jokingly call me ‘Hollywood,’ and they assume I’m out at Hollywood parties, but I’m a domesticated guy with 3 kids.
Bill Lawrence
I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the

I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren’t that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.
Gary Burton
I’m an East Coast guy and always will be. But I’m always going to find my way back to Green Bay whether I’m living here or not. Green Bay is a great place. Green Bay is awesome.
Mike Daniels
I’m totally an East Coast person, energetic and sarcastic. I’m not a nice L.A. person.
Diane Warren
On the East Coast, people try to make life interesting. On the West Coast, they try to make it comfortable. The emphasis here is on fancy cars, how one looks, less on the mind per se.
Al Seckel
Philly is more East Coast than Pittsburgh. It’s closer to New Jersey and New York, so the vibe is way more fast-paced.
Wiz Khalifa
The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they’re going to be successful because, quite honestly, I cannot work with people from the East Coast – a little bit of variance on the coast – I’m from Ohio, and I understand that.
Dan Gilbert
Lyme disease is very debilitating. Being from the East Coast I know Lyme disease is quite common and may lay dormant and may produce flu-like symptoms, as well as neurological issues.
Camille Grammer
I really missed the East Coast. I love living in Hawaii, but I miss the changing of seasons.
Daniel Dae Kim
The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.
Edmund Morgan
I grew up in Maryland on the East Coast – you know, close to D.C. but sort of in the suburban, rural area – and Nashville felt very, very homey to me.
Chris Carmack
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
Lev Grossman
I respect anyone who could take a stagecoach ride from the East Coast to the West. You had to be a very special kind of person to survive that because it’s the most uncomfortable ride in the world.
Sinbad
The audience loves us! They buy out all our shows and really enjoy themselves but the press keeps right on bombin’ us. We thought at first it was because our music was too Texan, maybe too different for East coast people to relate to. But anyone can relate to bein’ drunk or missin’ your woman.
Dusty Hill
When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.
Ian Frazier
‘Whale Rider’ was quite an extraordinary shoot. We were in that community on the east coast and so much of what you see in that film was very present.
Rachel House
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
Afrika Bambaataa
I knew just by reading this guy, Nathanael West, that he was probably one of those icky East Coast guys with glasses who got mad because when he came to L.A., all those starlets preferred producers or cowboys to him.
Eve Babitz
It doesn’t bother me that I’m not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis – I’m so popular in these cities where you’ve never imagined an East Coast comedian working.
Elayne Boosler
I definitely think I’m kind of more of an East Coast player than a West Coast player. But I knew at a young age, too, that if I didn’t get a scholarship that I was going to go to prep school.
Jared Dudley
People are honest, that’s the culture. East Coast, but specifically Boston. People are just good people.
Avery Bradley