Best Missouri Quotes
84 Missouri quotes by 65 unique authors
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Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.
— Parley P. Pratt
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Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I…
— William Least Heat-Moon
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I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents…
— William Least Heat-Moon
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I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and…
— Evan Peters
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Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made…
— Chely Wright
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The big fun in 'Battleship' is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and they…
— Peter Berg
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If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their…
— Eleanor Clift
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The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is…
— George Catlin
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The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section…
— Cole Younger
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Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And…
— Walt Whitman
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I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad…
— Harry S. Truman
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The people I'm honored to represent in Missouri and all over the country want leaders to address their kitchen table everyday problems.
— Dick Gephardt
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I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.
— Jenna Fischer
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We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.
— Tippi Hedren
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I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.
— James MacArthur
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I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.
— Claire McCaskill
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I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.
— Denis O'Hare
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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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When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew…
— Brad Pitt
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In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen…
— Brad Pitt
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I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd…
— Brad Pitt
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I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet…
— Brad Pitt
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When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in…
— Brad Pitt
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