90 Midwest Quotes for You to Enjoy

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting. Daniel Breaker

First Living Introverted Classical Eccentric Haunting Pianist He Performer Heard Midwest Playing

I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.' Derek Blasberg

Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember. Dinaw Mengestu

As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest. Donald Johanson

Experience Opportunity Digging Ancient Indian Archeological Remains Had Undergraduate Go Up Southwest Midwest Villages Number

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest. Douglas Wilson

Character Me Farm Pretty Opposite Off Midwest Much Created Actually

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me. Edward Hirsch

Great Me Great Deal Come Deal Always Chicago Midwest Landscape Meant

I have no idea why we bleed maize and blue, but we do. There's something about Michigan. Maybe it's that we're less jaded out there in the Midwest, I don't know, but it's a love of what we do and each other that brings us together. It's just a magic place. Gavin Creel

It's kind of low brow, but the show 'Bob's Burgers' is hilarious, and being from the Midwest, I can kind of relate to a lot of the jokes. 'Orange is The New Black' is a Netflix Exclusive, I think - that's really funny. Gracie Gold

Funny Jokes Black Hilarious Think Relate Kind Brow Netflix Exclusive New Lot Orange Being Midwest Low Bob Really Show

I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gerald Ford. He was a down-home type. I came from the Midwest and he came from the Midwest. He was nonaggressive and kindly. Helen Thomas

Type Back Ease Would Would-Be Kindly Had He Comfort Ford Came Lot Midwest Forth Down-Home Fun Kennedy

I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter. Jami Attenberg

Everyone Fatter Only Because Getting Little Midwest Then Lived Fat

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are. Jami Attenberg

Our Neighbors Like Know Midwest Who

When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?' Jehane Noujaim

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The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'. Jeremy Piven

Reality Before Entourage Movies Midwest Actor Started

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent. Jeremy Piven

Reality Stage Shark Opposite Midwest Agent Actor

I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado. Joe Lando

Love Day Every Day Mountains Farm Every Think Would About Rather Colorado Wisconsin Like Up Wonder Little Midwest Illinois

I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous. John Malkovich

Books set in Brooklyn and L.A. are often about people who are rootless, who want to go somewhere else. In the Midwest, though, the stories are about people who want to stay where they are - who like where they are. John Sandford

People Somewhere Else Books Though Brooklyn Stay About Somewhere Else Like Go Often Where Want Stories Midwest Who Set

We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest. Jonathan Groff

You School Club States More Area Glee Depends Midwest

It's so funny; I grew up in the Midwest, I have two older brothers, and you're just as competitive playing football as you are eating pickled eggs, or trying to kill zombies. As long as you don't take it too far, I think it's a good way for people to relate. Jose Pablo Cantillo

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I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back. Karolyn Grimes

Foreign policy is something Americans care about when the economy is good, and when it isn't, they hardly notice it. It's hard to worry about what happens in the Mideast when you don't have a job in the Midwest. Kathleen Troia McFarland

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