118 Oklahoma Quotes for You to Enjoy

For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma. Brad Henry

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings. Brad Pitt

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears. Brad Pitt

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In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way. Brad Pitt

Way Kid Ways Oklahoma Find Some Missouri Still Trying

I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid. Christian Kane

Time Man Happy Writing Long Long Time Back Mine Kid Oklahoma Songs Couple Wrote Course Boy Nashville Been Happy Man

Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team. Daniel Cormier

Life School State State University Oklahoma High High School Entire Entire Life Throughout Always Been Team Captain Olympic University

We always go to downtown Oklahoma City to look at all the Christmas lights that have been put up... We go to the Christmas Eve service at church, and we always beg my parents to open a present - just one present - on Christmas Eve. We get them to cave. Darci Lynne Farmer

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I hung out with Merle Haggard on his bus, which sort of freaks me out. It was him and his wife. We played with Merle in Oklahoma City. I'm from Arizona, and we talked about Arizona, and he remembered playing for two dollars a day down there at a bar. Dierks Bentley

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My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts. Don Nickles

State Oklahoma District Districts Part Were Senate Northern

I am the mild-mannered organic chemistry teacher at the University of Oklahoma. Donna Nelson

Teacher Chemistry Organic Oklahoma Am University

While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did. Eric Holder

Service Man Father Country Oklahoma Blacks More Spite Never He Couple Known Were South Than American Did Refused African Where African Americans Loved While Places Uniform Who Served

I think it's awful that the state of Oklahoma a couple of years ago passed this law to give the same tuition to illegals as they do to people who are residents of Oklahoma. I think it's wrong. Ernest Istook

People Law Think State Oklahoma Give Wrong Couple Couple Of Years Ago Passed Years Years Ago Same Tuition Who Residents Awful

My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left when I was about 5, and Daddy started me singing in clubs. Then I started singing on the radio in Oklahoma City when I was 7. Georgia Holt

Me Mother Singing Say Oklahoma Frantic City Born Pretty About Least Left Childhood Clubs Then Radio Daddy Started

I didn't win Class President in tenth grade. I was too chubby to win a role in the school play 'Oklahoma!' and I didn't make it into a singing and dancing group in high school for the same reason - too fat. Gretchen Carlson

I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on. Harold Hamm

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We need to make sure that we have one another's back and recognize the fact that patriots come in all different sizes, shapes, colors, not all of them wear uniforms, some of them are employers, some of them are the family members who stay at home and take of business back here in the state of Oklahoma. Harry M. Wyatt III

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I'm from Oklahoma City, and there's a statue across from the site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building of Jesus. It's called 'Jesus Wept.' And I love this statue because it's a statue of Jesus with his head in his hand. And his sadness and his pain at some of the choices that are made here - that just breaks his heart. Holly Hunter

I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American. J. C. Watts

As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure. J. C. Watts

You Pressure Oklahoma Perform Learn Quarterback

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman. J. C. Watts

Thought Black Community Imagination Wildest Neighborhood Oklahoma Would Rural Born Someday Never Buddy Six Children Poor Fifth Congressman

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