Florida Quotes · Page 7

Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and how nothing makes sense but still, somehow, there is…

— Roxane Gay

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in…

— Shuji Nakamura

Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.

— John Grogan

I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.

— Vanilla Ice

I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.

— Don Winslow

I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.

— Daniel Tosh

“Dogs started running wild and attacking people in Florida after hurricane Ian.”

— Steven Magee

“Hurricane Ian revealed the majority of Americans affected were not insured!”

— Steven Magee

When I left the zoo and I sent my chimpanzees to the sanctuary in Florida and imagined what my chimpanzees went through…

— Joe Exotic

My position on how to address the Confederate flag is clear. In Florida, we acted, moving the flag from the state grounds…

— Rick Santorum

Florida is an awesome place to find sweaters. People buy a really nice sweater for their trips up north, then they just…

— Jim Drain

It don't take a weather man to look around and see the weather, Jeb said he'd deliver Florida folks and boy did…

— Ani DiFranco

“ Physically and socially, Florida has its own North and South, but its northern area is strictly Southern and its southern area…

— Deborah Ford

Between trying to impeach Bill Clinton, Florida 2000, and the recall in California, I'm beginning to think that Republicans will do anything…

— Bill Maher

I went from Arizona to all over Florida just doing workouts in front of scouts. I promised myself that I was going…

— Eddy Alvarez

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7…

— Maggie Gallagher

“My husband is nervous about a lot of things down here, like the monstrous size of the fire ants and the quality…

— Laura van den Berg

Late February, and the air's so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard will come,…

— Gail Mazur

Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Refusing to lean back against him, Colleen sat ramrod straight until they reached the road. “I guess I should say thank you…

— Shannon MacLeod

The people who perpetrated the terror of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings are something different because these people were obviously…

— Edward Said

Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse,…

— John Lahr

BYU takes on defending national champion Florida State in the Pigskin Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., eight days after announcing that the 2000…

— LaVell Edwards

We can see, from California to New York, from Maine to Florida, Seattle to New Mexico - everywhere there are women's groups.…

— Maya Angelou

One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move.…

— Rodney Dangerfield

“I once believed soft, warm, beautiful things could never flourish in an environment of hard concrete and cold, dark bricks.”

— Tom Winton

“The island of Hawaii appears to be developing a Florida climate: Hot and humid with thunderstorms.”

— Steven Magee

Traveling around, coming down to Florida for a few days, it's fun! You go on the road, you get inspired to write…

— Denny Laine

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

— Jerry Seinfeld

Coming into Alabama from Florida, they all accepted me, they all loved me and all supported me.

— Derrick Henry

I love Florida. I love the beach. I love the sound of the crashing surfers against the rocks.

— Emo Philips

I can play with Florida Georgia Line. We can throw down with people. I think that's what sets me apart.

— Jon Pardi

Florida's number three industry, behind tourism and skin cancer, is voter fraud.

— Dave Barry

Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida

— Susan Orlean

Florida wants to change the state's motto to attract younger people. They're thinking about: More than just a great place to die.

— Joan Rivers

Florida was a hotbed of professional wrestling, one of the hottest in the country.

— Eric Bischoff

Now, the people of Florida can't stand him [Marci Rubio]. He couldn't get elected dogcatcher.

— Donald Trump

If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.

— James Carville

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

— Sidney Poitier

I was going to study business administration at Florida A&M, at the height of Reaganomics.

— Dee Rees