Miss America Quotes:

I'm thankful there are children watching at home who can finally relate to a new Miss America.

- Nina Davuluri

source: "Nina Davuluri Becomes First Miss America of Indian Heritage". Press conference in Atlantic City, people.com. September 16, 2013.

topic: Children, Home, America, Miss America

We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?

- Jay Leno

topic: America, Issues, Political, Miss America, Beauty Pageant

Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable.

- Thuy Trang

topic: Stars, Thinking, America, Down To Earth, Miss America

I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model. I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

- Clay Aiken

source: Reuters, February 22, 2004.

topic: Fall, Responsibility, America, Miss America, Modifying

On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I've missed it.

- Charles Barkley

topic: Basketball, Philadelphia, America, Miss America

Now, how can I be anti-woman? I even judged the Miss America pageant.

- Rush Limbaugh

topic: Stupid, America, Missing, Miss America

I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are agriculture and corn. Hey, I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else.

- Gabrielle Union

topic: Fun, Usa, Agriculture, Miss America

There's something about winning Miss America that brings out the snark.

- Gretchen Carlson

source: Source: frankviola.org

topic: Miss America

The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.

- Gerald Early

topic: Ambition, Class, America, Miss America, High Class

The first time I was asked whether women can "have it all" was at the Miss America pageant. I said no. I didn't mean that women shouldn't fully pursue their dreams, only that we need to be honest with ourselves.

- Gretchen Carlson

source: "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

topic: Dream, Mean, America, Miss America

In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.

- Susan Faludi

source: Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

topic: Years, America, Justice, Miss America, Equal Respect

They always say the Miss America Pageant isn't a beauty contest, it's really a scholarship program. If that's the case, why don't we just put all the contestants on 'Jeopardy!' and pick Miss America that way? At least you get the smartest one.

- Jay Leno

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: America, Missing, Way, Miss America, Contestants

As Miss America, my goal is to bring peace to the entire world and then get my own apartment.

- Jay Leno

topic: Women, America, Goal, Miss America

This is a strange country we live in. When it comes to electing a President, we get two choices. But when we have to select a Miss America, we get 50.

- Jay Leno

topic: Country, Two, America, Miss America

Miss America gets a lot of flak, but the reality is that it is uplifting and aspirational - 50% percent of my points were based on talent.

- Gretchen Carlson

source: "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

topic: Miss America

I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.

- Gretchen Carlson

source: Source: frankviola.org

topic: Miss America

In the Miss America system talent is worth 50 percent of a contestant's points so my mom encouraged me to give it a try. And once I decided to do it, like anything else, I gave it 110 percent.

- Gretchen Carlson

source: Source: frankviola.org

topic: Mom, America, Giving, Miss America, Contestants

When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.

- Gretchen Carlson

source: "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 15, 2015.

topic: Mother, Children, Real, Miss America, Violinist

I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America pageant.

- Ronda Rousey

source: Source: bleacherreport.com

topic: Girl, Thinking, America, Miss America, Pageant

Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.

- Jessica Valenti

topic: Couple, Media, Ideas, Miss America, Garbage Cans

At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.

- Hilda Scott

topic: America, Media, Shoes, Radical Feminism, Miss America

I joke that I reached the bimbo trifecta when I came to Fox News! In being a former Miss America, being blonde and then Fox.

- Gretchen Carlson

source: "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

topic: America, Missing, Blonde, Miss America, Fox News

They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant has to do what it thinks best serves its interests, and if moving out of Atlantic City does, that's what it should do.

- Leonard Horn

topic: Moving, Thinking, Cities, Miss America, Moving Out

Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn't believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn't do was sink.

- Esther Williams

topic: Beautiful, Teenager, Believe, Voluptuous, Miss America

When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.

- Ronda Rousey

topic: Mma, America, Missing, Miss America

Miss America was always white. All the beautiful brown women in America, beautiful sun tans, beautiful shapes, all types of complexions, but she always was white.And Miss World was always white, and Miss Universe was always white.And the angel fruit cake was the white cake and the devil food cake was the chocolate cake.I said, 'Momma, why is everything white?' I always wondered. And the President lived in the White House.

- Muhammad Ali

source: Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

topic: Beautiful, Angel, Cake, Miss America, Chocolate Cake

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- Frederick Soddy

topic: America, Civilization, Missing, Miss America

When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it

- Aaron Sorkin

topic: Writing, Life Is Good, America, Manageable, Standing There

I might even pursue a career in politics. If I do, I will have had great practice dealing with the avalanche of daily criticism from working at Fox News and being a former Miss America. I'm ready for anything!

- Gretchen Carlson

source: "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

topic: Practice, Careers, America, Miss America, Fox News

One of my Miss America judges called me a "God-clutcher" way back when because I spoke about my faith being an important part of my life during my interview.

- Gretchen Carlson

source: Source: frankviola.org

topic: America, Judging, Missing, Miss America, Way Back When