Missouri Quotes - Page 2

• I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts of England; I have witnessed a congress in solemn session to give laws to nations;...but dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains at midnight, in a dungeon, in an obscure village of Missouri.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Law, Giving, Justice

  Parley P. Pratt (2008). “Spirituality: The Key to the Science of Theology”, p.11, Cedar Fort

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• We've actually seen Black man murders [in] many a major city in the United States - New York City, St. Louis, Missouri, from Cleveland to Baltimore. It was those sorts of incidents that were very much prevalent in the forefront of that jury's conscience that allowed them to believe that this man [O.J. Simpson] could have been set up.

  Sterling K. Brown

  New York, Believe, Men

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Ocean, Rivers, Twenties

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• We’re going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years are better than their good years. But we’ve created a standard.

  DeLoss Dodds

  School, Years, Standards

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• If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to say he went under while conservationists weren't looking.

  Aldo Leopold

  Sorry, White, Answers

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.199, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Imposing excessive new regulations, or closing coal-fired power plants, would produce few health or environmental benefits. But it would exact huge costs on society - and bring factories, offices and economies to a screeching halt in states that are 80-98% dependent on coal: Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.

  Paul Driessen

  Virginia, Ohio, Utah

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• Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

  Charles Jencks

  Block, July, Grace

  Charles Jencks (2012). “The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture”, p.1, John Wiley & Sons

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• I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, Cities, Kansas City

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the Lord's totem pole, it's very brave of you to invite the "resident atheist" of mid-Missouri to share her thoughts with you.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Atheist, Brave, Atheism

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• Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer seduced by the uncanny and the unearthly. In Lilith's Cave, he once again reaches into a magical cornucopia of folklore and fantasy and spreads before us, in enchanting language, the marvels and shocks of dybbuks, ghosts, demons, spirits, and wizards.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Christian, Brother, Caves

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• If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices.

  Roy Blunt

  Senior, Jobs, America

  "Obama warns on student loan interest" by Josh Boak, www.politico.com. April 21, 2012.

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• Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground, of the magnolia, and the Florida keys, and their warm sea breezes; of the fence-rail, and the cotton-tree, and the migrations of the rice-bird; of the breaking up of winter in Labrador, and the melting of the snow on the forks of the Missouri; and owe an accession of health to these reminiscences of luxuriant nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Reading, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays: Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, The Landlord, Walking, Sir Walter Raleigh, Paradise (to be) Regained, Herald of Freedom, A Plea for Captain John Brown, The Highland Light, Dark Ages…”, p.79, e-artnow

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• Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.

  Hayley Atwell

  Summer, Dad, Cities

  "Hayley Atwell Is a Woman We Love" by Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. July 19, 2011.

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• I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back.

  Bill Ferguson

  Love, Authority, Columbia

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• But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's men two or three times. All they were trying to do was protect the property on the Missouri side of the line.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Men, Two

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• I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through.

  Helen Thomas

  Independence, Bills, Firsts

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• i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm)

  e. e. cummings

  Uncles, Buttons, Coffins

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Is 5”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Practice, Able

  "America decides". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2004.

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• People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again

  James St. James

  Moving, Mean, People

  James St. James (2003). “Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm the one not caring. I'm the one pretending the Earth isn't shattering all around me because I don't want it to be. I don't want to know there was an earthquake in Missouri. I don't want to know the Midwest can die, also, that what's going on isn't just tides and tsunamis. I don't want to have any more to be afraid of. I didn't start this diary for it to be a record of death.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Caring, Earthquakes, Diaries

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people of Missouri, but let them settle that matter for themselves. I hold that the people of the slaveholding States are civilized men as well as ourselves, that they bear consciences as well as we, and that they are accountable to God and their posterity and not to us. It is for them to decide therefore the moral and religious right of the slavery question for themselves within their own limits.

  Stephen A. Douglas

  Religious, Men, Rights

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• I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

  Denis O'Hare

  Detroit, Accents, Born

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• How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he puts up more or less every week. Howie Long once gave a great explanation of what it was like to get beat by quarterback legend Joe Montana. He said it was like getting knocked out in a pillow fight. You never felt the blow. And you were all kinds of mad afterward. That's as good as any description of Daniel. ... So what does Daniel do? Something right. On every play. In chess, grandmasters will tell you that it's the most innocuous-looking moves that are deadliest.

  Joe Posnanski

  Moving, Fighting, Blow

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• Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant, I would see you, and you, and you, and you, and every man, woman and child in the state, dead and buried. This means war.

  Nathaniel Lyon

  Children, War, Mean

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• We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.

  Tippi Hedren

  Lions, Basements

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