Kansas Quotes

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

Billy Sunday

Sports, Swings, Doors

Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

Steve Buscemi

New York, Character, Cities

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I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'

Wavy Gravy

Running, Cities, Kansas City

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I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.

David Cook

Years, Cities, Kansas City

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I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they have their citizens board, and I got elected to the Fed Chairmanship for the Federal Reserve Kansas City Bank back in the mid-'90s. It might have been 1995-'96.

Herman Cain

Cities, Kansas City, Twelve

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Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.

Howard Schultz

Cities, Kansas City, America

"Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz discusses turnaround". Interview with Melissa Allison, www.seattletimes.com. March 12, 2011.

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Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.

Chely Wright

Believe, Simple, Cities

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Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.

Joe Greene

Eight, Cities, Kansas City

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When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Baseball, Real, Player

"Baseball's Greatest Quotes". Book by Paul Dickson, 1991.

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When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.

Walt Disney

Vegetarian, Vegan, Poor

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In Kansas I have a chess school.

Anatoly Karpov

School, Chess

"Anatoly Karpov speaks his mind". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

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I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

L. Frank Baum

Feelings

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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

Exercise, Library, Radio

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My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

Pat Metheny

Brother, Player, Cities

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I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time

Sara Paretsky

Girl, Home, Waste

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My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

Todd Tiahrt

Generations, Small Business, Building

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Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

Mary Elizabeth Lease

Corn, Hell, Corny

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But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face

Kathleen Sebelius

Soldier, Wish, Comfort

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Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.

Ben Webster

Night, Cities, Kansas City

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If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

John Kruk

Wall, Cities, Kansas City

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It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.

Jay McShann

Kansas City, Two, Cities

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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

Uncles, College, One Day

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I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Sara Paretsky

Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

Jane D. Hull

Cities, Kansas City, America

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After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

Vernon L. Smith

Engineering, Graduates, Economics

Vernon L. Smith (2008). “Discovery - A Memoir”, p.126, AuthorHouse

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