Missouri Quotes - Page 4

• Yes, I live a crazy, exciting, whatever life, but I do think it's quite relatable because it has to be - I'm just a girl from St Louis, Missouri that has lived life like anyone else. There are things that are crazy and over the top, but the basic thread is my family, my career, trying to live and pursuing my dreams.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Girl, Dream, Crazy

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• Federal overreach from agencies like the EPA is hurting family farms. I will fight against these crippling regulations, and always side with the hard working farmers and ranchers of Missouri.

  Eric Greitens

  Hurt, Hard Work, Fighting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.

  Brad Pitt

  Summer, Night, Oklahoma

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

  Brad Pitt

  Ideas, Oklahoma, Feelings

  Interview with Jeff Giles, ew.com. September 16, 2011.

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• When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

  Brad Pitt

  Kids, Tulsa, Littles

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  In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

  Brad Pitt

  Bragging, Ifs, Just Do It

  "Brad Pitt on Gay Marriage, Smoking Pot and 'Real Love'" by Dotson Rader, parade.com. August 5, 2009.

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• I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.

  Brad Pitt

  Kids, Different, Culture

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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• In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.

  Barack Obama

  Mad, Half, Kind

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Midnight, Dungeons, Village

  Parley P. Pratt (2008). “Spirituality: The Key to the Science of Theology”, p.11, Cedar Fort

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• As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Wall, Men

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