Florida Quotes - Page 11

• The fans made a difference in the outcome of the game. It was one of those games that Florida really did have to beat the team on the field and in the stands.

  Gerry DiNardo

  Team, Lsu, Games

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• In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

  Larry Gatlin

  Mother, Florence Nightingale, Political

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• The REAL American Dream is not about a garage full of new cars, winning the lottery, or retiring to a life of ease in Florida. It's about doing work that has meaning, work that makes a difference, and doing that work with people you care about.

  Joe Tye

  Dream, Real, Winning

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• The people of Floridas 2nd Congressional District said, Steve, go up there and fight to change the culture in Washington. Ive taken their instructions very seriously.

  Steve Southerland

  Taken, Fighting, People

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• I took my dog for a walk... all the way from New York to Florida... I said to him "There now you're done."

  Steven Wright

  Dog, New York, Done

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• A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

  Edna Buchanan

  Cities, Roots, Miami

  Edna Buchanan (2009). “The Corpse Had a Familiar Face”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

  Joy Fielding

  Home, Waiting Rooms, Age

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• When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Age, Moved, Died

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• Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.

  T. J. MacGregor

  Unseen, Spirit, Everglades

  T. J. MacGregor (1990). “Kin Dread”, Fawcett Books

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• I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

  Wesley Snipes

  College, Competition, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Development

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• As far as the legal hassling and wrangling and posturing in Florida, I would suggest you talk to our team in Florida led by Jim Baker.

  George W. Bush

  Team, Humor, Political

  "Bush, Cheney, Powell Meet at Bush Ranch in Crawford, Texas". www.cnn.com. November 30, 2000.

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• Both teams are making mistakes. Florida's making these itsy-bitsy little ones, and Tennessee is making huge, gigantic mistakes.

  Gary Danielson

  Mistake, Team, Tennessee

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• We were all worried that nothing good was going to happen for Florida

  Gary Danielson

  Worried, Happens

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• I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida.

  Jeb Bush

  Enforcement, Want, Death Penalty

  "If You Think Jeb Bush Is A Moderate, Then You Missed His 1994 Campaign" by Christina Wilkie, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 08, 2015.

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• Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

  Anne Hull

  Mermaid, Nineteen, Paradise

  "The Strawberry Girls" by Anne Hull, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2008.

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• We ought to be bragging about Florida!

  Rick Scott

  Bragging, Ought

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• I followed the law. Before God, before the law, before the people of the state of Florida who elected me, I know that I followed the law.

  Katherine Harris

  Law, People, States

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• If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards.

  Katherine Harris

  Law, Justice, Uniforms

  "Katherine Harris Unhappy With 'Recount'". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. June 3, 2008.

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• I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

  Karen Russell

  Swamps, Alligators, Wrestler

  "Life, Love And Undeath In The 'Lemon Grove'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 8, 2013.

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• I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.

  Don Winslow

  People, Surfing, East

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• It's a dream come true for Bubba Watson from Bagdad, Florida to have the green jacket on.

  Bubba Watson

  Dream, Green, Jackets

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• For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., wheres theres crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.

  Ken Jennings

  Children, Apples, Maps

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People are saying that Rick Perry is really tough because he has executed over 200 people. And that was just while he was on vacation in Florida.

  Conan O'Brien

  Vacation, People, Tough

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• While travelling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them.

  Gene Spafford

  Christian, Religious, Jehovah

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