Mayflower Quotes

“When you put your business' roots into the Mayflower network, you're plugging into a network based on permaculture design principles. Our ecosystem is unique and our ecosystem offers unique value.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The value we provide at Mayflower exists at the convergence of various new technologies and studies including Blockchain, cryptography, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, stigmergy, additive manufacturing, big data, advanced logistics and more.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“By combining supply chains, we maximize space utilized per vehicle, we streamline routes, we remove waste from the system, we do more in less time, and we provide superior value to the businesses in the network.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“After Hymns and tears, they boarded the brig Thaddeus, a vessel so crappy, it made the Mayflower look like the QE2.”
― Sarah Vowell, Unfamiliar Fishes

“They were a most unusual group of colonists. Instead of noblemen, craftsmen, and servants - the types of people who had founded Jamestown in Virginia - these were, for the most part, families - men, women, and children who were willing to endure almost anything if it meant they could worship as they pleased.”
― Nathaniel Philbrick

“Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust;
Fear not the things thou suffer must;
For, whom he loves he doth chastise,
And then all tears wipes from their eyes.

William Bradford
Plymouth Colony Governor”
― Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

“For all they had suffered during those first terrible winters in America, their best years were behind them, in Leiden. Never again would they know the same rapturous sense of divine fellowship that had first launched them on this quest.”
― Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

“All you need to build a house, Is blood and bricks and plaster.”
― Harriet Jones

“Seasons passed by. I always loved to watch the trees in our garden. With the first rain, the leaves would
drench themselves. Slowly they would grow tired of the rain and droop. So would I, grow tired of
waiting for him to look at me, talk to me. Slowly the leaves would dry up, and fall to the ground. It
resembled a naked and shameless woman, trying to woo her husband. And the season would change,
and the leaves would shoot slowly trying to gain the lost vigor. It would start blooming and look in its
best form. The tree would be so overwhelmed by its own beauty that it would call upon the butterfly
and birds. It would make everyone happy. But has anyone wondered how it feels? It feels like me.”
― Ranjani Ramachandran, Fourteen Urban Folklore

“My ancestors didn’t come over on the Mayflower, but they met ‘em at the boat.”
― Will Rogers

“Myron settled back behind a shrub. There were lots of shrubs around here. Everywhere one looked. there were shrubs of various sizes and shapes and purposes. Rich blue bloods must really like shrubs, Myron decided. He wondered if they had any on the Mayflower.”
― Harlan Coben, Back Spin

“9/11 destroyed two bustling buildings,
Mayflower destroyed a living continent.
You cannot conceive a nation in liberty
by wiping out a living civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“9/11 destroyed two bustling buildings, Mayflower destroyed a living continent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations