County Quotes
259 County quotes by 215 unique authors
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There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. You know the walking dead when you see them: they…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never…
— Archibald MacLeish
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I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.
— James McGreevey
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Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer…
— Rupert Murdoch
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Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to…
— Conor Oberst
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I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here.…
— Pat Paulsen
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I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career…
— Michelle Pfeiffer
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Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.
— Karl Rove
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I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring…
— Sidney Sheldon
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The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where…
— Andre Leon Talley
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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was…
— Twyla Tharp
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And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.
— Tom Vilsack
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More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.
— Tom Vilsack
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My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her…
— Julie Walters
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I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up…
— Dwight Yoakam
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A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits…
— Mark Twain
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He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again. - "The Bridges…
— Robert James Waller
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I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby is a fish…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in place where no…
— Jeannette Walls
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Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level is the family;…
— W. Cleon Skousen
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Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to Washington, not to…
— Henry Miller
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County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm…
— Bill Watterson
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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our…
— Edward Abbey
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All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of…
— Lisa See
Who Wrote These County Quotes
215 authors contributed a total of 259 County Quotes, led by these top contributors: