The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City,… — Marc Davis Copy Share Image
One time, when I was in my teens, jamming in a Kansas City club, I was doing all right until I tried… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
The Dead's best venues were the outdoor concerts. I've been to a few, including one outside of Kansas City on the Fourth… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I firmly believe I never had too much of an opportunity after I left Cleveland. I was behind Jamaal Charles at Kansas… — Peyton Hillis Copy Share Image
Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
People's outlook on Kansas City is always like, 'They let you rap in K.C.?' Or 'How's Dorothy and Toto?' They put Kansas… — Tech N9ne Copy Share Image
There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only… — Emanuel Cleaver Copy Share Image
I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up… — Wavy Gravy Copy Share Image
All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
“Residential stability begets a kind of psychological stability, which allows people to invest in their home and social relationships. It begets school… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“In Milwaukee, a city of fewer than 105,000 renter households, landlords evict roughly 16,000 adults and children each year. That's sixteen families… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I knew a gentleman who was 65 who had a consulting firm outside of Kansas City, Mo. I convinced him to sell… — David Steward Copy Share Image
“The old folk from Indiana and Iowa and Illinois, from Boston and Kansas City and Des Moines, they sold their homes and… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I mean, people need to remember without the grassroots, Ronald Reagan probably doesn't become president of the United States of America and… — Michael Reagan Copy Share Image
Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
When you play the Oakland Raiders when you're the Kansas City Chiefs, you know they're going to come out with that mentality… — Patrick Mahomes Copy Share Image
The web really does make the music audience a global community - when I send a tweet, I get responses from Kansas… — Cary Brothers Copy Share Image
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and knowing nothing about Picasso, I had the audacity to knock on his door, became his friend,… — David Douglas Duncan Copy Share Image
I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years.… — Warren Moon Copy Share Image
Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they have their… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was… — Chely Wright Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been… — Paul Westhead Copy Share Image
Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that… — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
The third game of my career, we played Kansas City and I played as poorly as I've ever played in my life.… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
“Many of us can't go home again, whether home is Seville, Cabo Sur, Nastas, Havana, or Kansas City. Thus, we must recognize… — LEVega Copy Share Image
I started out splitting my time between the Kansas City and St. Louis comedy scenes, which both had bluer sensibilities than other… — Nikki Glaser Copy Share Image
I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
When I got interested in football, nobody was cheering for Kansas City. Kansas City was trash. I said, 'That's my team.' Then… — Rasheed Wallace Copy Share Image
The people who say: 'You are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion, you are what you… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I grew up in rural Missouri about two hours north of St. Louis, and if the wind was blowing right on a… — Kane Copy Share Image
I did not go to fashion school. I arrived in New York in 1986 from Kansas City and was working as accessories… — Kate Spade Copy Share Image
