90 Midwest Quotes for You to Enjoy

New York was scary, coming from the Midwest. At first, I thought I'd come in all cocky, like, 'I'm gonna bring this town to its knees!' After about a month, I was like, 'I wanna go home.' Chris Farley

Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early! Kate Spade

Girl Babysitter Clerk Sales Midwest Them Popcorn Start Early Starting

Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to. Luke Perry

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I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit. Tom Brokaw

Old College Spirit Part Adventurous Midwest Across

Wrestling in the Midwest is always such a blast, and a favorite place of mine. Adam Cole

Mine Favorite Wrestling Blast Always Place Midwest

I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest. Adam Rapp

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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest. Al Franken

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I never seem to get past - I feel like a stupid guy from the Midwest. Alex Graves

Stupid Past Seem Guy Never Feel Like Get Midwest

Much of the U.S. Midwest is already running on bitumen. Do we want to extend this addiction? And at what cost? Or should we set other goals and say one to two million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands is all we really need to make the transition? Andrew Nikiforuk

I don't mean to make a generalization, but I do at the same time, from what I know about people from the Midwest, it seems like their families would talk about money openly in front of them when they were kids. They'd say stuff like, 'We're broke! We're gonna lose the house!' Baron Vaughn

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Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it. Big Sean

Best You Own Add Worlds Get Being Flavor Midwest Your

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on. Bill Goldberg

Up Going Hockey Grew Midwest Much Really

I grew up in the Midwest, and I was a short, fat, little Jewish kid... but it was just different. People didn't understand, so I had to deal with it. One day, I physically dealt with it, and it never happened again. I'm not saying that's the way to do it, but you have to stand up for yourself, period, end of story. Bill Goldberg

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When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources. If we do not, it would do immense harm to the manufacturing industry in the Midwest. Bob Latta

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His middle name's Pax. When he's older, if he wants to go by Paxton, Pax, Tiger, he has that choice. So, he has no choice not to be average with a name like that. It could go horribly wrong - he could be a DJ in the Midwest with the name Tiger - we'll see. Brendan Schaub

Older No Choice See Horribly Could He Wrong Name Like Tiger Go His Middle Wants Midwest Average Choice

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris. Chris Van Allsburg

Kind About Boy Heard Hubris Authors Dutch Stories Midwest Filled

I was stunned to learn that more than 200,000 abandoned, neglected, or orphaned children had been sent from the East Coast to the Midwest on trains between 1854 and 1929. Christina Baker Kline

Neglected East Abandoned East Coast More Had Between Stunned Learn Been Than Trains Children Midwest Sent Coast Orphaned

I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer. Chuck Grassley

I'm a little bit shy and from the Midwest, so to be so open and honest with millions of people is pretty difficult. To have people constantly having an eye on you and very interested in what you're doing at all times - it can be a little stressful at times. Connor Franta

I call myself Zimerican. I was born in the Midwest to Zimbabwean parents. My father was a professor at Grinnell College in Iowa. Danai Gurira

Myself Father College Parents Born Call Iowa Midwest Professor

I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York. Daniel Boulud

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