Nebraska Quotes
54 quotes by 49 authors
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Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen…
— Willa Cather
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I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.
— Andrew Rannells
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One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
— Edward Abbey
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The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
— William Jennings Bryan
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Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to the universe (that…
— George Saunders
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My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season.
— Tom Osborne
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My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
— Kate Millett
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I love bowl games. I really do. I like it more than the kids do. I grew up a poor kid in western Pennsylvania, and…
— Barry Alvarez
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No one who reads this book will remain unchanged or unaffected-Julene Bair's story arcs from the cornfields of Kansas and Nebraska to the food on…
— Jonis Agee
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Im afraid Wisconsin is you, Nebraska, only with much better parties and more wins.
— Rick Reilly
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I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.
— Lawrence Klein
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I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.
— Theodore C. Sorensen
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The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it…
— Terry Eagleton
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I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.
— Mike Johanns
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I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system…
— Dave Heineman
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Nebraska sets the standard for how fans should act.
— Beano Cook
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The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It…
— Matthew Sweet
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We finally got Nebraska where we want them...off the schedule.
— Cal Stoll
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I wasn't surprised at all. In fact, I thought, why stop there? Why not add the Big Show, or Chris Jericho, or the whole state…
— Kurt Angle
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What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise…
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Nebraska Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 54 Nebraska Quotes, led by these top contributors: