Nebraska Quotes - Page 4

• I love bowl games. I really do. I like it more than the kids do. I grew up a poor kid in western Pennsylvania, and I went to Nebraska because I saw them play in the Orange Bowl and I wanted to play in a bowl game. I cherish the memories.

  Barry Alvarez

  Memories, Kids, Games

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• The United States does not have a very good record in the Middle East. I think they have the best of intentions but I think the problem is that it's very difficult from Washington, or from Iowa or Nebraska to understand what is happening in this crazy part of the world. In some cases US diplomacy has been somewhat naive.

  Moshe Arens

  Crazy, Thinking, Iowa

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• I wasn't surprised at all. In fact, I thought, why stop there? Why not add the Big Show, or Chris Jericho, or the whole state of Nebraska for that matter? And don't you think a wrestling ring is a little old school, Lilian? Why not put the match in a shark tank, with real live sharks? Hungry sharks! And the only way to beat your opponent is to stuff him down a shark's throat, and pin the shark. Wouldn't that be a hoot?

  Kurt Angle

  Real, School, Wrestling

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• I'm an honest, hardworking conservative leader who will stand up to Washington and fight for Nebraska.

  Deb Fischer

  Fighting, Leader, Conservative

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• My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Summer, Jobs, Firsts

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• I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.

  Dan Chaon

  Parent, Different, Grew

  "Dan Chaon: Characters find sense of self" by Michelle Broder Van Dyke, www.sfgate.com. October 8, 2009.

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• What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise of a few individuals, that is brave and practical; but as the enterprise of the State, it is cowardice and imbecility. What odds where we squat, or bow much ground we cover? It is not the soil that we would make free, but men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Men, Odds

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.135, David M Gross

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• We finally got Nebraska where we want them...off the schedule.

  Cal Stoll

  Leadership, Sports, Modern Life

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