Nebraska Quotes

54 quotes by 49 authors

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
I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me. — Andrew Rannells
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
The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later. — William Jennings Bryan
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
My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season. — Tom Osborne
My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska. — Kate Millett
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
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
Im afraid Wisconsin is you, Nebraska, only with much better parties and more wins. — Rick Reilly
I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister. — Lawrence Klein
I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father. — Theodore C. Sorensen
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
I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska. — Mike Johanns
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
Nebraska sets the standard for how fans should act. — Beano Cook
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
We finally got Nebraska where we want them...off the schedule. — Cal Stoll
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
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

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