Seattle Quotes · Page 5

In some cities, McDonald's rules, but Seattle is ruled by teriyaki joints.

— Tom Douglas

I love downtown Seattle. It's a city that has all of the outdoor activities and is still a very cosmopolitan city.

— Greg LeMond

“Living in Seattle is like being married to a beautiful woman who's sick all the time.”

— G.M. Ford

We still have our home in Seattle. The kids are there. The grandkids are there.

— Mike Holmgren

I never felt bad about being lumped in with other Seattle bands. I thought it was great.

— Chris Cornell

I think I owe it to the people of Seattle, and myself, to retire as a Mariner.

— Ken Griffey Jr

I don't know when, or how, but I feel it: Basketball will come back to Seattle.

— Shawn Kemp

When I went back home to Seattle after filming 'Dune' in Mexico, I thought, 'Did this really happen?'

— Kyle MacLachlan

When I retired and told my wife I wanted to go back to Bozeman and fight political corruption and get involved in…

— Stan Jones

Frequently I get asked if I'd rather have spent my career in a big city like New York or Los Angeles, where…

— Steve Largent

“Seattle. It rains there a lot." Well, this is going great. Conversationalist of the Year. I'll just continue to recite basic facts…

— Emery Lord

If a chairman of a company visits Seattle, that chairman should take all the staff out in the evening and have a…

— Richard Branson

Seattle’s Moraine not only make Washington State proud, but also the whole American progressive music scene joyful. ... It’s simply an impressive…

— Lee Henderson

Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been…

— Paul Allen

Seattle is not an overly friendly city. It is a civil city, but not altogether friendly. People from outside mistake the civility…

— Jonathan Raban

I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I…

— Kurt Cobain

The NFL has a hard cap, but if you ask 20 NFL experts who is going to win the Super Bowl this…

— Bob DuPuy

I thought Denver and Seattle was a big game but Houston and Dallas is the kind of game that as players, we…

— Sterling Sharpe

What are a genuine pain in the ass are all the misconceptions and outright lies. I read somewhere that in 2004 I…

— Jim Goad

Who was Amanda Knox? Was she a fresh-faced honor student from Seattle who met anyone's definition of an all-American girl - attractive,…

— Tina Brown

My friend Danny Clinch, who's a photographer, gave me a big, signed, numbered print of a photo he took of Eddie Vedder…

— Brian Fallon

Make Earth Day Every Day.” While we might not always live up to this ideal, I try to keep this quote from…

— Denis Hayes

Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta's, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship…

— Tom Douglas

Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent…

— Reggie Watts

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

— Dave Grohl

“Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it.”

— Kimberly Kinrade

I was close to joining Seattle Sounders when I left Schalke in 2012, but we decided to go to Qatar first.

— Raul

I was driving around the country when I was 19 and happened to run out of cash in Seattle, so I settled here.

— Tom Douglas

Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle.

— Mike McCready

It's still fun to come to games, and it's still fun to be in the Seattle crowd.

— Steve Largent

I give Seattle credit for grooming me, making me the person I am today.

— Jamal Crawford

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

— Rainn Wilson

I saw the Clash in '79 at the Paramount in Seattle, and it changed my whole life.

— Duff McKagan

Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.

— Dimebag Darrell

I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great…

— Magic Johnson

Whenever I'd get in trouble, my mom would send me to Seattle, and when I would get in trouble there, I'd get…

— Lil Tracy

I've been everywhere. I've been to New Jersey, New York, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Portland, Seattle.

— Luka Doncic

We have a lot of people in Seattle, but we also have a lot of people in Bellevue and it is where…

— Andy Jassy

I think I've seen 'Sleepless in Seattle' like 40 times... I've seen 'Harold and Maude' like 50 times probably.

— Alison Sudol

In Seattle, they have a saying: 'If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and then shoot yourself in the face.'

— Doug Benson