I remember thinking, in Kansas my name will be Evett - which is my middle name. I didn't want to explain to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When Kansas and Missouri work together, we can accomplish a lot - and also set an example at a time of extreme… — Laura Kelly Copy Share Image
It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is]… — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and… — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Yesterday the Supreme Court lifted the ban on same-sex marriage in Kansas. They didn't give a reason for the ruling, but then… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after… — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints… — Jesse Stone Copy Share Image
After I got kicked out of CalArts, I moved to Lawrence Kansas where my sister lived. I began working on A William… — Yony Leyser Copy Share Image
“By 1997, when Kansas City finally gave up, it had the most extravagant schools in the country, but the percentage of whites… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
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
Well, we had a bunch of primaries and caucuses on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders won the Nebraska and Kansas caucuses. That… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
I am a basketball junkie, and as a product of the great basketball state of Kansas, I have watched many a ball… — Sheri L. Dew 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'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could… — Barry Sanders 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
The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain… — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
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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
Our early days - our audiences were always very sparse. We played very obscure places in very obscure parts of the world,… — Phil Ehart 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 grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside… — Sara Paretsky 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
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship… — Charles M. Schulz 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
Oh, I have walked in Kansas Through many a harvest field, And piled the sheaves of glory there And down the wild… — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want… — Bill Conti Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up… — Laura Moriarty 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
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