Kansas Quotes

• At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Swings, Doors

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

  Steve Buscemi

  New York, Character, Cities

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• I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'

  Wavy Gravy

  Running, Cities, Kansas City

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• I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.

  David Cook

  Years, Cities, Kansas City

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• Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.

  Howard Schultz

  Cities, Kansas City, America

  "Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz discusses turnaround". Interview with Melissa Allison, www.seattletimes.com. March 12, 2011.

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• Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.

  Chely Wright

  Believe, Simple, Cities

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• I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they have their citizens board, and I got elected to the Fed Chairmanship for the Federal Reserve Kansas City Bank back in the mid-'90s. It might have been 1995-'96.

  Herman Cain

  Cities, Kansas City, Twelve

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• Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.

  Joe Greene

  Eight, Cities, Kansas City

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• In Kansas I have a chess school.

  Anatoly Karpov

  School, Chess

  "Anatoly Karpov speaks his mind". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

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• I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

  L. Frank Baum

  Feelings

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• My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.

  Jay McShann

  Christian, Play, My Family

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• I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

  Kathleen Sebelius

  Education, Believe, Important

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• But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care

  Kathleen Sebelius

  Education, Two, Issues

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• I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

  Jeri Ryan

  Kentucky, Texas, Hawaii

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• We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.

  Jim Ryun

  Strong, Agriculture, Heritage

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• My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

  Margaret Spellings

  Education, Understanding, Special

  Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robele, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

  Francis Parkman

  Morning, Mouths, Next

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.3, VM eBooks

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• I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young

  Pat Metheny

  Cities, Kansas City, Musician

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• When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

  John Updike

  Easter, New York, Writing

  John Updike (2013). “Picked-Up Pieces: Essays”, p.472, Random House

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• You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

  Mort Walker

  Cities, Kansas City, Trying

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• It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Cousin

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• I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

  Andrew Taylor Still

  Children, War, Doctors

  Andrew Taylor Still (1897). “Autobiography of Andrew T. Still: With a History of the Discovery and Development of the Science of Osteopathy, Together with an Account of the Founding of the American School of Osteopathy”

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• There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Jobs, Cities, Kansas City

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• Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.

  Wes Montgomery

  Night, Men, Florida

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• I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  New Orleans, Cities, Kansas City

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