Culture Quote by Kimberly Kinrade

Seattle has a special place in my heart.

— Kelsey Plum

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things…

— Tom Robbins

“Seattle is Sweden! Extremely liberal, progressive, and very white, with a strong undercurrent of racism.”

— Sherman Alexie

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino,…

— Quincy Jones

“All those ninnies have it wrong. The best thing about Seattle is the weather. The world over, people have ocean views. But across our…

— Maria Semple

I grew up outside of Seattle and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of questioning and…

— Carrie Brownstein

In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters…

— Garth Stein

“Living in Seattle is like being married to a beautiful woman who's sick all the time.”

— G.M. Ford

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners…

— Jonathan Raban

Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with…

— Joseph Campbell

So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea.

— Josh Lucas

“As much as I try not to engage people in the grocery checkout, I couldn’t resist one day when I overheard one refer to…

— Maria Semple