Planet earth Quote by John Corwin

“For crying out loud, Baker, what rock have you been living under? Oh, yeah, you're from Kansas." He said it as if Kansas were…

— Clare Vanderpool

“I cannot understand why you should wish to leave this beautiful country and go back to the dry, gray place you call Kansas." "That…

— L. Frank Baum

“Manhattan is a small town. It has to be. Only half a dozen places in Kansas are anything else.”

— Raymond Chandler

“Gone to Kansas City, Nick thought. For all I know, that could be it, too. Everybody left on the poor sad planet picked up…

— Stephen King

“Places don't matter to people any more. Places aren't the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always…

— Matt Haig

“We're not in Fairyland! We're in Kansas!”

— Sarah Zettel

The board transported its jurisdiction to a never-never land where a Dorothy of the new millennium might exclaim: "They still call it Kansas, but…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“How could the people around me not see that I’d been spending my day in nineteenth-century Kansas, or in the pit of a giant…

— Elizabeth Joy Arnold

“Any city in any country, including my own hometown, was to me just another place where I might live or might not live.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“You can never really escape. It goes with you, wherever you go. Somehow, the prairie dust gets in your blood, and it flows through…

— P.S. Baber

“Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.”

— Laurie Notaro

“The people feel and look the same, like they've settled here even though they know there's something more-something better-just beyond where they are. Small-town…

— Courtney Summers