26 Midwestern Quotes for You to Enjoy

Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction. Stephen Kinzer

Ways Some Cases Troubled Towns Off Midwestern Decline Many Grasping Extinction

I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold. Amy Poehler

Wonderful Few Sense Aggressive Every Think Cold Adjective Kind Windy Stern Got Years Um Chicago Very Midwestern Lived

First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it. Bill Kurtis

Good First Edge Big Everyone Feel Town First Of All Built Prairie Cow Chicago Friendly Very Just Being Midwestern Kansas Basically

The most surprising thing, honestly, is that so few Americans know about the orphan trains. I was also surprised at the resilience and fortitude of the riders I met, their pragmatism and grace. I don't know whether this is a Midwestern trait or simply a human one. Christina Baker Kline

Grace Met Few Honestly About Simply Know Most Also Pragmatism Surprised Surprising Surprising Thing Trains Trait American Human Whether Midwestern Fortitude Riders Orphan Thing Resilience

After 'Blankets,' I was sick of drawing myself and doing this autobiographical, mundane, Midwestern sort of comics. I wanted to create something bigger than myself and outside myself. Craig Thompson

Myself Sick Drawing Something Outside Blankets Sort Comics Doing Than Autobiographical Wanted After Bigger Midwestern Create Mundane

In Minneapolis, I learned that there are more theaters per square mile than in any U.S. city but New York, and we also had great Midwestern beef in our salads in a plaza overlooking the national headquarters of Target, Inc. Darin Strauss

Great National Plaza Our City Minneapolis Per More Had New Headquarters Also Learned Overlooking Beef Salads Target Square Than York Any New York Theaters Midwestern Mile

I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in our early human ancestors. I wanted to work in Africa. Donald Johanson

Work Teenage Back Our Ancestors Days Undergraduate Always Been Going Human Africa Being Wanted Interest Midwestern Prehistory Specialize Early

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie. Douglas Conant

Love Food Thanksgiving Mother Wife Meal Sweet Every Heritage Pumpkin Memorable Potatoes Mashed Potatoes Stuffing Come Pie Most Course Campbell Southern Which Turkey Midwestern Rice Roots Sweet Potatoes

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean. Elin Hilderbrand

Food Culture Ocean Okay Cities City Iowa Go Midwestern

We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music. Isaac Hanson

Music Soul Listening Guys Soul Music Up Grew Midwestern Who

As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values. Jim Doyle

I think that I have never had the confidence to really aggressively get behind myself, and so what I do tends to be - I don't want to say 'sheepish,' but there is a sheepish quality to my ability to toot my own horn. I'm very Midwestern in that way. So I just do what I like to do, and what I think I do well is not very loud, necessarily. Kathryn Erbe

Myself Confidence Quality Own Think Way Say Ability Horn My Own Tends Never Had Like Well Loud Very Get Behind Just Want Midwestern Really Necessarily

I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice. Nancy Pickard

Truth Home Justice Fear Girl Telling Telling The Truth Some Born About Write Closer Wanting Midwestern Us Much Bred Harder Things

I was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values. Richard Smalley

'Five, Six, Seven, Nate!' opens on my 13-year-old protagonist packing up a duffel bag and bidding his Midwestern town goodbye, heading off to start rehearsals for his New York City debut in 'E.T.: The Musical.' Tim Federle

Seven Musical City Bag Heading Goodbye New Town Opens Protagonist Bidding His Off Up Five Debut York Six New York New York City Midwestern Packing Rehearsals Start

The people that we met when we lived in Cincinnati, the Midwestern values - I'm from Oklahoma, my wife's from Green Bay - we felt at home in the year we were here. Zac Taylor

Home People Wife Values Met Year Cincinnati Oklahoma Bay Felt Were Green Green Bay Midwestern Lived Here

Indianapolis is a great Midwestern city. Great people. Warm, friendly people. Archie Manning

Great People City Great People Friendly Midwestern Warm

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