Minnesota Quotes - page 3

I'm a lifelong Vikings and Packers fan because I lived in both Minnesota and Wisconsin as a kid. (Mark Batterson)
A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state. View quote
Mark Kennedy
I've done some version of that Minnesota accent - that Midwestern accent - in sketch comedy for years. It's the quickest way to symbolize you're a mom. View quote
Allison Tolman
I did a little modeling in Minnesota, but because I was a heavier 'model,' I didn't pursue it much when I lived there. View quote
Brianna Brown
In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin town or Minnesota city to Chicago or New York or Los Angeles. Certainly for some people, that journey is a round trip. View quote
Mona Simpson
I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy. View quote
Rachael Leigh
I didn't like The Astrodome or any of the Astro-Turf fields. Probably my worst ballpark was The Met in Minnesota; I hated that place. I was so glad when they tore that place down, you have no idea. View quote
Rollie Fingers
I lived in Minnesota in a small town. View quote
Steve Zahn
The longest road trip I've ever been on is from Minnesota to Los Angeles. View quote
Sean William Scott
I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness. View quote
Sean William Scott
I grew up in Minnesota. (Sean William Scott)
I love everything Minnesota. View quote
Sean William Scott
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry. View quote
Peter Agre
I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there. View quote
Peter Agre
Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake, Ponemah, Brookston in Minnesota, and Manderson, Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community. View quote
Winona LaDuke
I moved on from Minnesota to the United Nations. View quote
Kofi Annan
As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country. View quote
Rick Santorum
I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years. View quote
Michele Bachmann
I was in the Minnesota state Senate from 2000 until 2006. In 2006, I was urged to run for Congress, I did. And I've been here ever since. View quote
Michele Bachmann
The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn't want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn't know who I was. And once many party bigwigs did get to know me, they weren't sure that I could win the seat. View quote
Michele Bachmann
When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, DC, I did everything I could to defeat cap and trade. I didn't work to implement cap and trade. (Michele Bachmann)
I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine. View quote
Garrison Keillor
Cherish the Minnesota State Fair. Wherever you find beauty and simplicity and truth, know that there is a committee somewhere planning to improve it --- don't let them do it. View quote
Garrison Keillor
To many Americans, whose only knowledge of the North Star State is that it is intensely cold and populated by Swedes and Holsteins, it will come as a surprise to wake up one morning in 2004 and read in the newspaper, "Half of U.S. Economy Now in Hands of Minnesota". View quote
Garrison Keillor
It's my lie and I believe in it It's my lie and I wanted it It's my bed and I'll bleed in it It's my bed, and I'll lie And I sit on the corner And I drink drown soda I wanna bomb the whole state of Minnesota. View quote
Courtney Love