Missouri Quotes - page 3

If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics. (Eleanor Clift)
The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is. View quote
Jay Nixon
I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms. View quote
Jay Nixon
I can't say enough about the tremendous work the Missouri National Guard has done as part of our military efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries. View quote
Jay Nixon
I've been very active in Missouri. View quote
Jim Talent
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. View quote
Kimora Lee Simmons
But we did conclude that Ray had actually killed Dr. King pursuant to his theory that he was going to be able to get hold of that money. He had learned of this offer through his ties in the Missouri State Penitentiary. View quote
Louis Stokes
Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings. View quote
Bob Holden
As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years. View quote
Kit Bond
And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church. View quote
Mel Tillis
Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed. (Mike Rounds)
The big fun in Battleship is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and they have huge guns. They were what you saw in WWII. The last battleship that was used was the Missouri, which is what the Japanese surrendered to... View quote
Peter Berg
Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count. Seventy-six percent of them turned out in November 2012, when Missouri was a key swing state for Barack Obama's reelection. View quote
Rick Perlstein
I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory. View quote
John Adams
The people I'm honored to represent in Missouri and all over the country want leaders to address their kitchen table everyday problems. View quote
Dick Gephardt
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. View quote
Rick Santorum
I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through. View quote
Helen Thomas
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. View quote
Dan Simmons
When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy. View quote
Brad Pitt
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. View quote
Brad Pitt
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)
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. View quote
Brad Pitt
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. View quote
Brad Pitt
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. View quote
Brad Pitt
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in. View quote
William Least Heat-Moon