Kansas Quotes - Page 3

• We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain they are the real American.

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Real, Thinking

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• Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.

  Howell Raines

  Self, America, Voting

  "Obama, don't run from class warfare" by Howell Raines, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2011.

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• No matter where you go, no matter where you live, a Kansas fan is a Kansas fan: implacable, insufferable and perfectly happy to stay that way.

  Paul Shirley

  Fans, Where You Live, Matter

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• The people who say: 'You are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion, you are what you think, and if you don't think, you can eat all the meat in Kansas City and still be nothing but a vegetable.

  Russell Baker

  Thinking, Vegetables, Cities

  Russell Baker (1990). “The rescue of Miss Yaskell, and other pipe dreams”, Plume

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• I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.

  Bill Kurtis

  East, Looks, Affinity

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• You got used to running things on your own." "What could he do about it when he's in Iraq and the car breaks down in Kansas?" Beckett gave her a long, quiet look. "I'm not in Iraq." "No, and it has to be said, I'm not in Kansas anymore." She lifted her hands, then let them fall. "It's not that I've forgotten how to be a couple, but that my experience in being part of one is different from yours. Maybe from most people's. And I've been on my own a long time." "Now you're not. I'm not fighting a war, and I'm right here." Needed to be here, he realized, with her.

  Nora Roberts

  Running, Couple, War

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• Kansas is not easily impressed. It has seen houses fly and cattle soar. When funnel clouds walk through the wheat, big hail falls behind. As the biggest stones melt, turtles and mice and fish and even men can be seen frozen inside. And Kansas is not surprised. Henry York had seen things in Kansas, things he didn't think belonged in this world. Things that didn't. Kansas hadn't flinched.

  N.D. Wilson

  Fall, Men, Thinking

  N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards”, p.1, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure.

  Barry Sanders

  Running, Taken, Trying

  "Barry Sanders: "Mr. 99"". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.espn.com. July 31, 2009.

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• She wanted to wake up like Dorothy and see Michael's face peering over the side of the bed, laughing. WHY, YOU JUST HIT YOUR HEAD. But it was not a dream and there was no Kansas and he was never coming back.

  Janet Fitch

  Dream, Laughing, Bed

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• I mean, if you could have a wizard grant a wish, would you waste it on going to Kansas?

  Michael Buckley

  Mean, Wish, Wizards

  Michael Buckley, Peter Ferguson (2008). “Once Upon a Crime”, Amulet

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• Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it.

  Langston Hughes

  Home, Wheat Fields, Rivers

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• I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a car, / because not only my lonesomeness / it's Ours, all over America, / O tender fellows --/ & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy / in the moon 100 years ago or in / the middle of Kansas now.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Moon, Men, Years

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• President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

  Tom Vilsack

  Mom, Fighting, America

  Tom Vilsack's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.

  Paul Pierce

  Golf, College, Quitting

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• I wouldn't be in a huge hurry to go back to Kansas. It was just bizarre. There's a lot of very, very heavy set people who believe in whatever they were told, because they didn't seem to get out very much or be interested in leaving where they were. They just didn't seem that curious, and I find that a little hard to deal with.

  Dylan Moran

  Believe, People, Leaving

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• Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.

  David Sedaris

  Girl, Bully, Sound

  "Saddled with student debt? Welcome to America's screwed generation" by Natalia Antonova, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

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• Um ,sorry. I cant read the last line." "Fish. Have you stolen any fish from the holy lakes?" "I lived in Kansas..So ..no

  Rick Riordan

  Sorry, Lakes, Lines

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• March Madnesss...the only place where you hear 'Kansas is advancing.'

  Bill Maher

  America, March, Advancing

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• I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time against Kansas City. I had a 2-2 count on the hitter - and Amos Otis broke from third. The pitch was a ball and slid in safe. I felt like a nickel.

  Nolan Ryan

  Home, Thinking, Cities

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• I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those concert halls, of all those countries. I did not know what it was like to direct a band... All I wanted was to be big, to be in show-business, and to travel...and that's what I've been doing all my life.

  Count Basie

  Country, Cities, Kansas City

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• The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him... They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white; American, Kansas, middle of America. There is no argument about who he is, or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president. He's America's first mixed-race president.

  Morgan Freeman

  White, America, Race

  "Morgan Freeman: No Black President For U.S. Yet". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 3, 2012.

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• n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed.

  Barack Obama

  Stupid, People, Tragedy

  "Obama Gaffe: "10,000" Died In Kan. Tornado". www.cbsnews.com. May 9, 2007.

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• This is what you should do, let it rest. I'm playing football for LSU. I'm preparing for R-Kansas. I'm preparing for the next game, and the next game after that.

  Les Miles

  Football, Memorable, Lsu

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• I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it here in Kansas City.

  Roger Maris

  New York, Cities, Kansas City

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• I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta." Leo snorted. "What's a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird.

  Rick Riordan

  Wine, Atlanta, Sea

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