South Florida Quotes:

One of the major hobbies in South Florida is keeping animals that no sane person would want to keep. One of those is snakes. They usually get them when they're small, and when they get too big, they let them go. But there are also people with monkeys, lions, tigers. And they all get away, eventually.

- Dave Barry

source: Source: www.chicagotribune.com

topic: Animal, Snakes, Florida, South Florida

We have seen how Zika has become a very serious problem in Brazil, in other parts of Latin America, in this hemisphere. During the summer it can arrive very quickly here in south Florida, in the whole state. In a very hot climate in summer, where mosquitos begin to spread very quickly, it's a very serious threat.

- Marco Rubio

topic: Summer, Latin, Florida, South Florida

I haven't officially spoken in public about that issue, but I don't think it's a secret that Carlos [López-Cantera] has been a good friend of mine for many years. I respect him. I think he has done a great job as a state representative, as property appraiser in South Florida, and he's doing so now as lieutenant governor of Florida, and I think he would be a great senator, but I don't have an announcement for you today.

- Marco Rubio

topic: Jobs, Good Friend, Thinking, South Florida, Pez

Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No one knew better than he the history of the plants and animals of South Florida or conveyed it with more humor and enthusiasm.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

topic: Philosophy, Animal, Florida, South Florida, Intrinsic Value

I actually like south Florida. I never lived in a more interesting place than this. I've never met a wider range of people. I guess when I came here I thought there were Cubans and then there were people from New York and that was Miami. Now I know that it's Cubans, people from New York, and some people from New Jersey.

- Dave Barry

source: "All I Think Is That It's Stupid". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

topic: New York, Florida, Interesting, South Florida, Interesting Places

I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

- Ransom Riggs

source: Ransom Riggs (2012). “Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past”, p.4, Harper Collins

topic: Growing Up, Kids, Florida, South Florida, Kids Growing Up

My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida.

- Karen Russell

source: "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

topic: Florida, Backyards, Madness, South Florida

In South Florida, we have industrial cockroaches that have to be equipped with loud warning beepers so you can get out of their way when they back up.

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

topic: Florida, Cockroaches, Warning, South Florida

I've been checking with people back in South Florida to see if Hurricane Dennis is going to whack my house, and the consensus of the experts seems to be: No, it will not, unless it does, in which case, yes. So I'm feeling really calm over here in London.

- Dave Barry

topic: Florida, People, House, South Florida

I think this spring as the mosquito populations start to increase, we should be especially cautious about locations where we've had locally-transmitted Dengue virus. The same mosquito species that transmits Zika also transmits Dengue. It's confined primarily to Florida, South Florida, along the Gulf states and Southern Texas with a few small populations in Arizona and California.

- Laura Harrington

source: "Attention Turns To Repelling Mosquitoes That Carry Zika, Dengue". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. February 2, 2016.

topic: Spring, Thinking, Florida, South Florida

If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

- F. Lee Bailey

topic: Winning, Florida, Cases, South Florida

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

- Karen Russell

topic: Florida, Swamps, Alligators, South Florida

I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

- Vanilla Ice

topic: Baby, Texas, Ice, South Florida, Dallas Texas

And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.

- Jimmy Johnson

topic: Cowboy, Florida, Wanted, South Florida

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

topic: Taken, Florida, Environmental, South Florida, Everglades

The Republicans in the House and Senate took the district that I firmly represent, 22 in south Florida, from a D plus one to a D plus five almost a D plus six district, which means you are given a five to six percent registration advantage to Democrats. They drew in more Democrats into the district I represent.

- Allen West

topic: Mean, Florida, House, Registration, South Florida

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".

- Tucker Max

source: Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

topic: Florida, Intellectual, Levels, South Florida

Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves trippingly off the pen. His main man, Eddie Perlmutter, ex-Boston cop attempting semi-retirement in Boca Raton like a fish trying to retire out of the water, is a character for the ages. Carl Hiaasen, watch your back.

- Douglas Preston

topic: Retirement, Moving, Character, South Florida, Offbeat

Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely.

- Kendrick Meek

topic: Jobs, Florida, Dollars, South Florida

Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

- Joe Tex

topic: Florida, Years, Parent, South Florida, Portugal

I kinda like Florida. It's hot as hell, but we moved to Tallahassee, which is so close to Georgia. It really wasn't Florida the way people think of Florida. It wasn't south Florida. But you could still easily drive to Panama City Beach and get a little bit of Redneck Riviera if you want that. Get some airbrushed T-shirts on, and you're done.

- Tony Hale

topic: Beach, Redneck, Thinking, South Florida, Panama

The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

topic: Country, Lying, Florida, South Florida, Everglades