Best Kansas Quotations
142 Kansas quotes by 118 unique authors
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I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
— Sara Paretsky
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Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.
— Francis Parkman
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I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The…
— Paul Pierce
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I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.
— Jeri Ryan
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We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.
— Jim Ryun
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I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each…
— Barry Sanders
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Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati…
— Howard Schultz
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After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide…
— Vernon L. Smith
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The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've…
— Bruce Springsteen
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I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the…
— Andrew Taylor Still
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At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly…
— Billy Sunday
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I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV.…
— Clyde Tombaugh
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When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
— John Updike
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President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state,…
— Tom Vilsack
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It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the…
— Charles M. Schulz
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Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the…
— Langston Hughes
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I mean, if you could have a wizard grant a wish, would you waste it on going to Kansas?
— Michael Buckley
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She wanted to wake up like Dorothy and see Michael's face peering over the side of the bed, laughing. WHY, YOU JUST HIT YOUR HEAD.…
— Janet Fitch
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Kansas is not easily impressed. It has seen houses fly and cattle soar. When funnel clouds walk through the wheat, big hail falls behind. As…
— N.D. Wilson
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If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people…
— L. Frank Baum
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When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew…
— L. Frank Baum
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When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride…
— Donald Miller
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The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get…
— Max Lucado
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(...) I don´t want a drink. I just want to know where am I? -You´re not in Kansas anymore!- Jake chuckled at his own joke.
— Alexandra Adornetto
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