Maine
- Bangor - The Queen City of the East.
- Bath - The City of Ships.
- Cherryfield - Blueberry Capital of the World.
- Farmington - Earmuff Capital of the World.
- Millinocket - The Magic City
- Portland - Forest City (reported in 1894)
- Presque Isle - The Star City.
- Rockland - Lobster Capital of the World.
- Strong - Toothpick Capital of the World.
- Waterville
- The Elm City
- The University City of Maine
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Famous quotes containing the word maine:
“It was a Maine lobster town—
each morning boatloads of hands
pushed off for granite
quarries on the islands.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“We know of no scripture which records the pure benignity of the gods on a New England winter night. Their praises have never been sung, only their wrath deprecated. The best scripture, after all, records but a meagre faith. Its saints live reserved and austere. Let a brave, devout man spend the year in the woods of Maine or Labrador, and see if the Hebrew Scriptures speak adequately to his condition and experience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)