Maine

Maine (IPA: /meɪn/; French: État du Maine) is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is the easternmost state of the US, and the northernmost state of New England. It was admitted to the Union under the Missouri Compromise on March 15, 1820, as the 23rd state. It is the 39th most extensive and the 41st most populous of the 50 United States.

Quotes

Dirigo

I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine. ~ Terry Goodkind

I can say I didn't find anyplace I'd rather live than Maine. ~ Angus King

Dirigo
- I direct (or alternatively, I lead, I guide)
  - Official state motto, on the State Seal, beneath a stylized north star.

As Maine goes, so goes the nation.
- Anonymous political proverb, since the late 19th century

To the memory of Dr. Olfert Dapper, who saw a wild unicorn in the Maine woods in 1673, and for Robert Nathan, who has seen one or two in Los Angeles.
- Peter S. Beagle, on the dedication page of The Last Unicorn (1968)

They were walking along a roadway of great slabs of stone set down one after another, the beginning and end of which they could take in at a glance, a road rising from and heading toward nowhere now.
"You can't get there from here," William said, using a Down East accent.
"Anymore." Maine, they thought of Maine, then. Evidently this truncated road could still carry them as far away and as long ago as that.
- Nancy Clark, in A Way from Home: A Novel (2007)

There was a young lady from Gloucester
Who complained that her parents both bossed her,
So she ran off to Maine.
Did her parents complain?
Not at all — they were glad to have lost her.
- John Ciardi, in The Hopeful Trout and Other Limericks (1989)

Trump's statements disparaging immigrants who have come to this country legally are particularly unhelpful. Maine has benefited from people from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and, increasingly, Africa — including our friends from Somalia.
- Susan Collins, as quoted in "Mainers defend Somali neighbors against Trump" (5 August 2016), The Boston Globe

You can't get there from here.
- Marshall Dodge, in his "Which Way to Millinocket?" Bert & I humor routine

I will not listen to childcare lectures from a man who put his daughter in a box and shipped her to Maine.
- Jane Espenson, in lines written for Regina (the Evil Queen) to David Nolan (Prince Charming), in the "We Are Both" episode of Once Upon a Time (7 October 2012)

I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.
- Terry Goodkind, as quoted in Moving to Maine : The Essential Guide to Get You There and What You Need to Know to Stay (2007) by Vicki Doudera, p. 13

When people asked me in a RV park, "What do you do?" I just said, "I'm a retired state employee from Maine."
- Angus King, on his job description to strangers, as a former Governor, in "Bowdoin Lecturer is King of the Road in 'Governor's Travels'" in Academic Spotlight (2 August 2011)

The Southwest was spectacular, but I have no interest in moving there. North Carolina is beautiful in spring and fall. But I can say I didn't find anyplace I'd rather live than Maine.
- Angus King, in "Bowdoin Lecturer is King of the Road in 'Governor's Travels'" in Academic Spotlight (2 August 2011)

My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.
- Marilynne Robinson, in Gilead (2004)

I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
- Parker Stevenson, as quoted in Maine (2010) by Margaret Dornfeld and Joyce Hart, p. 6