Midwestern Quotes

26 quotes by 25 authors

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in… — Diane Ackerman
I don't think people have ever cast me for anything too traditional or midwestern or housewifey, — Anjelica Huston
As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes,… — Jim Doyle
We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national… — William J. Clinton
This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground. — Walker Percy
Midwestern people stick together. Gee willikers, they work hard. There's no glitz, no glamour. When I was a girl in Duluth, Minnesota, I used to… — Gena Lee Nolin
You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection… — Bill Bryson
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in… — Diane Ackerman
I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern. — Heather Burns
Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean. — Elin Hilderbrand
Potluck Supper with Meeting to FollowÂ is a marvel, deftly examining the connections between art and everyday life. Andy Sturdevant's lively, unique inquiries into trust fund… — Joe Meno
I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury. — Gloria Steinem
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts… — Barbara Ehrenreich
First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and… — Bill Kurtis
I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful… — Amy Poehler
There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs… — Jerry Saltz
perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that… — Barack Obama
Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction. — Stephen Kinzer
I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in… — Donald Johanson

Who Wrote These Midwestern Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 26 Midwestern Quotes as follows: