Oklahoma Quotes

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  • For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977

    Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 11 October 1991, Washington, D.C.
  • [In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.

    Horse   Gun   Land  
  • I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.

  • When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.

  • This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives.

    "‘Daily Show’ co-creator Lizz Winstead sparks outrage with Oklahoma tornado joke about conservatives". www.foxnews.com. May 21, 2013.
  • You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

    "Lemons won 599 games during 34-year career". www.espn.com. September 6, 2002.
  • A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the Oklahoma City bombing. He told junior that it happened "because they hated too much" For now, let`s accept the premise that one hundred sixty-eight humans died in Oklahoma City because people "hated too much" Now answer these questions if you would be so kind: did a federal sniper shoot Vicki Weaver in the face because he hated too much? Did our government conduct the Tuskegee with syphilis on black soldiers because it hated too much?

    Writing   Kids   Night  
  • People should quit their jobs, move to Oklahoma, move in with 34 people, pay $100 a month in rent and start a band or start painting. That way you'll feel like you have a purpose if you lose your mind, and you'll have some fun on the way.

    Jobs   Fun   Moving  
    "Evangelicals". Interview with Stuart Berman, pitchfork.com. August 28, 2006.
  • When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms.

    "It Only Took Five Minutes for Democrats to Politicize the Oklahoma Tornado". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 21, 2013.
  • Twenty years ago the Oklahoma City bombing seared the concept of terrorism on American soil into our national consciousness and proved that we are all vulnerable, even in the heartland. I was in college at Rice University in 1995. All of us remember exactly where we were that day, and we will never forget the 168 people who were killed. Terrorism is evil, yet the incredible response to tragedies like we experienced in Oklahoma 20 years ago serve to highlight the strength, resolve, and resiliency of the American people to the world.

    Heart   College   Cities  
  • When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.

  • It's a road movie [Valentine]. I mean, yes. We film it here and it takes place from basically Colorado to Louisiana. That's the road trip. So we're all over the place. We go through bits of Texas and bits of Oklahoma.

    Source: collider.com
  • Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

  • When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

    Boys   Oklahoma   Tears  
  • I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

    War   Oklahoma  
    "Why Can't Campaigns be Good for a Laugh?" by Steve Chapman, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 02, 2006.
  • Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?

    Mean   Idaho   Alaska  
    Dana Stabenow (2011). “Play with Fire”, p.99, Gere Donovan Press
  • Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.

    "Luis A. Ferré Dies at 99; Pushed Puerto Rican Statehood" by Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2003.
  • After I released 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' people started saying, Oh, it's kind of risky. You're coming out with a religious song. And I was thinking, Really? I grew up in Oklahoma; I always had a close relationship with God. I never thought it was risky in the least. If anything, I thought it was the safest thing I could do.

    Song   Religious   Jesus  
    "Carrie Underwood: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. December 09, 2009.
  • I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler.

    Oklahoma   Long   Grew Up  
  • The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast. . . . The percentages of broken families and unwed mothers remained higher in places like Arkansas and Oklahoma than in New York and Massachusetts.

  • I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.

    "What Color Is a Conservative?". abcnews.go.com.
  • Oklahoma Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain.

    Oklahoma   Wind  
    "Oklahoma!" (song) (1943)
  • I only had one year of eligibility and I wasn't getting many offers from other schools. I jumped on it to make a mark. That was the most wise decision I made coming out of Oklahoma junior college.

    Wise   School   College  
    Source: www.cyinterview.com
  • We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'

  • I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

    Oklahoma   Texas   House  
  • Oklahoma's always been good to me.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • My dad was a huge basketball influence in my life on and off the court. Playing for him and having him around, having him push me harder than maybe another coach would have was a huge blessing for me. Getting to play with my brother was an unreal experience at Oklahoma, in college, it's some of the funnest times I've had in basketball, and I'll cherish those memories forever.

    Source: www.slamonlineph.com
  • I had an Indian face, but I never saw it as Indian, in part because in America the Indian was dead. The Indian had been killed in cowboy movies, or was playing bingo in Oklahoma. Also, in my middle-class Mexican family indio was a bad word, one my parents shy away from to this day. That's one of the reasons, of course, why I always insist, in my bratty way, on saying, Soy indio! - "I am an Indian!"

    Cowboy   Class   America  
    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there.

    Interview with Jeff Onto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.
  • I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

    "Q+A: The Men of Celebrity Wife Swap". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 3, 2012.
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