Kansas Quotes

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.

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

They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

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.

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

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

Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

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.

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

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

I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.

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

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

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.

In Kansas I have a chess school.

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

I'm a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows.

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

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.

It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.