Quotes and Sayings About Oklahoma

Oklahoma's always been good to me.
-- Alan Jackson

#Oklahoma

I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Oklahoma #Tv Shows #People

I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own.
-- Ally Carter

#Writing #Artist #Oklahoma

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977
-- Anita Hill

#Oklahoma #States #University

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!
-- Annette Bening

#Oklahoma #Who I Am #Class

People don't know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it.
-- Barry Switzer

#Mean #Oklahoma #People

I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
-- Billy Crystal

#Baseball #Oklahoma #Mitzvah

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.
-- Blake Bailey

#Oklahoma #Ethos #Class

Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.
-- Blake Shelton

#Cowboy #Oklahoma #Guy

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!
-- Blake Shelton

#Home #Oklahoma #California

Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.
-- Bobby Heenan

#Oklahoma #Tulsa #Swamps

People come up to me all the time who saw Dad in 'Oklahoma!' or 'Pajama Game,' and they say they'll never forget it.
-- Bonnie Raitt

#Dad #Oklahoma #Games

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.
-- Brad Henry

#Oklahoma #Resilience #Stronger

We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way.
-- Brad Henry

#Dream #Opportunity #Oklahoma

I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.
-- Brad Pitt

#Summer #Night #Oklahoma

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.
-- Brad Pitt

#Oklahoma #Ideas #Feelings

I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
-- Brad Pitt

#Oklahoma #Born

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.
-- Brad Pitt

#Boys #Oklahoma #Tears

I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.
-- Brian Bosworth

#Regret #Oklahoma #Embarrassment

I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that's where I want to raise my kids.
-- Carrie Underwood

#Kids #Oklahoma #Addresses

We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either.
-- Carrie Underwood

#Oklahoma #People #Cows

I had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes.
-- Chris Paul

#Oklahoma #Cities #Tornadoes

When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.
-- Darrell Royal

#Oklahoma #Games #Freshman

A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.
-- Deacon Jones

#Football #Oklahoma #Tornadoes

I'm more focused on the positives of why I'm here. I'll be able to address those things in due time. Right now it's about the Thunder and Oklahoma City.
-- Derek Fisher

#Oklahoma #Cities #Addresses

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.
-- Doc Rivers

#Player #Oklahoma #Nba

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.
-- Don Nickles

#Oklahoma #States

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.
-- Edna Ferber

#Oklahoma #States

As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
-- Famke Janssen

#New York #Oklahoma #Years

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.
-- Gary Busey

#Oklahoma #Texas #Grew Up