Quotes and Sayings About Kansas
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(...) I don´t want a drink. I just want to know where am I? -You´re not in Kansas anymore!- Jake chuckled at his own joke.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed
-- Barack Obama -
I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure.
-- Barry SandersSource : "Barry Sanders: "Mr. 99"". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.espn.com. July 31, 2009.
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Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.
-- Ben Aaronovitch -
First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.
-- Bill KurtisSource : "My Chicago: Bill Kurtis On Wrigley, City Violence & Beef". Interview with Erin Chan Ding, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 01, 2011.
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I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.
-- Bill Kurtis -
Voters replaced Democratic senators with Republicans in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, and likely in Alaska, and appear on track to do so in a runoff next month in Louisiana. At the same time, voters kept Republicans in GOP seats in heavily contested races in Georgia, Kansas, and Kentucky. That is at least ten, and as many as a dozen, tough races, without a single Republican seat changing hands. Tuesday's voting was a wave alright - a very anti-Democratic wave.
-- Byron York -
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I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.
-- Clyde Tombaugh -
When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.
-- Donald Miller -
I wouldn't be in a huge hurry to go back to Kansas. It was just bizarre. There's a lot of very, very heavy set people who believe in whatever they were told, because they didn't seem to get out very much or be interested in leaving where they were. They just didn't seem that curious, and I find that a little hard to deal with.
-- Dylan Moran -
My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
-- Ed Asner -
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I remember thinking, in Kansas my name will be Evett - which is my middle name. I didn't want to explain to anyone how to say Em-a-yat-zee.
-- Emayatzy E. Corinealdi -
In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point.
-- Emmett Tyrrell -
Im a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows.
-- Eric Stonestreet -
Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.
-- Francis ParkmanSource : Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.3, VM eBooks
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You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him
-- George Plimpton -
He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.
-- Gore Vidal -
I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.
-- Hayley Atwell -
Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.
-- Hayley AtwellSource : "Hayley Atwell Is a Woman We Love" by Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. July 19, 2011.
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Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.
-- Howell RainesSource : "Obama, don't run from class warfare" by Howell Raines, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2011.
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My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.
-- Hunter ParrishSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
-- Irving Penn -
Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.
-- James Brolin -
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One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.
-- James Earl Jones -
She wanted to wake up like Dorothy and see Michael's face peering over the side of the bed, laughing. WHY, YOU JUST HIT YOUR HEAD. But it was not a dream and there was no Kansas and he was never coming back.
-- Janet Fitch -
My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.
-- Jay McShann -
There is this incredible, indelible community that has sprung up around the show, a community that gathers in homes and clubs, from Los Angeles to Topeka, Kansas and around the world. A community that, in some places, meets quietly in a lesbian bar that doesn't even exist depending on whom you ask.
-- Jennifer BealsSource : Message on ourchart.com, October 16, 2008.
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I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.
-- Jeri Ryan -
We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.
-- Jim Ryun