Time Quote by Margot Mifflin

In Missouri, we built the steamships that plied the Mississippi. It was people of Missouri who believed that a human being could fly across…

— Eric Greitens

No matter where I've been or where I go, a piece of Missouri is always with me because this is where I'm from and…

— Michael Chandler

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that…

— Cole Younger

And in some ways, to me, that's one of the inspiring and powerful things about the Great Migration itself. There was no leader, there…

— Isabel Wilkerson

We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains,…

— Meriwether Lewis

We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the…

— Charles Sturt

“They rode out on the north road as would parties bound for El Paso but before they were even quite out of sight of…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He made the country down in Illinois, and He made the Missouri", the little girl continued. "I guess somebody else made the country in…

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

My people came from western Tennessee and western Kentucky.

— Rodney Crowell

I was always told that Hoosier came from when settlers in the state, when a stranger came on their property they'd say, "Who's there?…

— Jim Gaffigan

My own forefathers arrived in America in 1620 on the Mayflower.

— Michael J. Knowles

“One weekend in the vacation, I was invited to meet her family. They lived in Kent, out on the Orpington line, in one of…

— Julian Barnes