Illinois Quotes - Page 3

• Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.

  John O'Hara

  People, Hibernation, States

  1940 Pal Joey, ch.9.

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• I first read Wendell Berry's short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and the fellowship of the small town reminded me of my own small town in Illinois.Then I discovered that, much like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, that all of Berry's fiction was centered in this same town.

  Nick Offerman

  Character, Watches, Berries

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.

  June Squibb

  Country, Littles, Towns

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• I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Shots, Abolitionist

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• The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

  Frank Church

  Government, Language, States

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• Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Rhode Island, Islands, Virginia

  "Good News in the Fight Against Bad Air" by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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• I'm also honored to be here with the speaker of the House - just happens to be from the state of Illinois. I'd like to describe the speaker as a trustworthy man. He's the kind of fellow who says when he gives you his word he means it. Sometimes that doesn't happen all the time in the political process.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Mean, Men

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• My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

  Laurie Metcalf

  Growing Up, Southern, Far Away

  "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Laurie Metcalf". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. October 21, 2009.

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• I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area in Illinois and wanting to do something greater than myself in Broadway, that was a film that I could really relate to.

  Jodi Benson

  Princess, Broadway, Film

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

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• Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois.

  Sayed Kashua

  Writing, Here I Am, Hebrew

  "Tell Me a Story with a Happy Ending" by Sayed Kashua and Etgar Keret, www.newyorker.com. October 13, 2014.

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• Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for shipping companies, marinas and other businesses and prompted further restrictions on future water withdrawals for expanding suburbs. "A lot of people just can't believe that we may be running out of water, living this close to the Great Lakes," said Sarah Nerenberg, a water engineer with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, which conducted the study on shortages.

  Timothy Egan

  Running, Believe, Loss

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• If there's a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that's struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer even if it's not my grandparent.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Struggle, Medicine

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. March 27, 2004.

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• I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the graduation I looked, and 92 percent of those who graduated at the University of Illinois were females. Where can a Black female, who are now the lawyers, the engineers; they are the ones graduating with top degrees; where will they find in a Black male a counterpart that is equal to them? We are filling the jails, we are filling the prisons.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Grandchildren, Night, Jail

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

  John Warren Kindt

  Hurt, Gambling, Study

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• I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school.

  Jill Stein

  Growing Up, School, Class

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

  Godfrey

  School, Class, Black

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• I'm from Downer's Grove, Illinois. We had a blackout there the other day, but fortunately the police made him get back into his car before he got too far.

  Emo Philips

  Car, Police, Grove

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• I'm old enough, I remember when Richard Nixon had the election stolen in 1960. And no serious historian doubts that Illinois and Texas were stolen.

  Newt Gingrich

  Texas, Doubt, Serious

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I'm not one of those who say this is the way. I'm not that opinionated. I can only say this is my way. Even the $1,000 scholarship that my son could have gotten from the state of Illinois to go to college, we didn't want. I'd rather get out and work and have my children know that their money comes from their parents and we have to work for it.

  Marva Collins

  Children, Son, College

  Source: reason.com

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• I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.

  Alan Keyes

  Nominations, Republican, Accepting

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• The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates. Wendell Phillips called him "the great slaver from Illinois."

  Bill Ayers

  Example, Speech, Killers

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.

  Bill Robinson

  People, House, Theatre

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• A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Opportunity, Men, Texas

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• I just went home to Illinois, and I asked my family, 'Are you guys planning on talking in those accents the whole time I'm home?' And my mother said, 'You used to talk like that, too, Tasha.' And I said, 'Yes, but you see, I've reinvented myself. Do you have any idea who I think I am?'

  Natasha Leggero

  Funny, Mother, Home

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• After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war.

  Hugh Hefner

  War, College, Feet

  "Interview With Hugh Hefner". nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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