Kansas Quotes - Page 2

• My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Generations, Small Business, Building

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• But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face

  Kathleen Sebelius

  Soldier, Wish, Comfort

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

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Cousin

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.

  Max Lucado

  Faith, God, Christian

  Max Lucado (1996). “When God Whispers Your Name”, W Publishing Group

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• I would love to be in Kansas.

  Paul Reubens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Kings, Growing Up, Dark

  Charles M. Schulz (1971). “Snoopy and "It was a dark and stormy night"”, Henry Holt & Co

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• I've learned a long time ago to never say never about the band Kansas.

  Phil Ehart

  Long, Band, I've Learned

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 25, 2015.

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• Kansas is not easily impressed. It has seen houses fly and cattle soar. When funnel clouds walk through the wheat, big hail falls behind. As the biggest stones melt, turtles and mice and fish and even men can be seen frozen inside. And Kansas is not surprised. Henry York had seen things in Kansas, things he didn't think belonged in this world. Things that didn't. Kansas hadn't flinched.

  N.D. Wilson

  Fall, Men, Thinking

  N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards”, p.1, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• She wanted to wake up like Dorothy and see Michael's face peering over the side of the bed, laughing. WHY, YOU JUST HIT YOUR HEAD. But it was not a dream and there was no Kansas and he was never coming back.

  Janet Fitch

  Dream, Laughing, Bed

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• I mean, if you could have a wizard grant a wish, would you waste it on going to Kansas?

  Michael Buckley

  Mean, Wish, Wizards

  Michael Buckley, Peter Ferguson (2008). “Once Upon a Crime”, Amulet

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• Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it.

  Langston Hughes

  Home, Wheat Fields, Rivers

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