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Quotes About Seattle

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.
~ Gordon Parks
I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.
~ George Stigler
I grew up a Seattle Sonics fan, in Washington state.
~ Mark Lanegan
I come from a town in Washington state that might not be too familiar to Clevelanders called Chelan. It's really beautiful. It's about two-and-a-half hours east of Seattle and two-and-a-half hours west of Spokane. It's right in the middle of the state.
~ Joe Harris
The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
~ Carlo Ratti
Everyone's saying I'm hating on Seattle, but they're taking that out of context. What I really meant to say was I'm the only new wave artist to really break out of Seattle.
~ Lil Mosey
During my draft process, I had Seattle come and work me out. This is one of the places where I thought I might be drafted. I'm glad it worked out I'm here.
~ B. J. Daniels
My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
~ Rainn Wilson
I'm not from this Earth - I'm from Pluto. I moved to Seattle when I was 2.
~ Lil Mosey
We all came to Seattle in hopes of building better lives. No one said we wouldn't have to struggle first.
~ Regina Scott
Seattle." "I'm at the Pier. My meeting just finished.
~ Jay Giles
In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
~ Jeff Bezos
Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.
~ Chris Benz
I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
~ Daniel Breaker
The Seattle explosion was what saved rock from becoming too pompous! A great moment in music!
~ Nancy Wilson
Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.
~ Isaac Brock
Portland doesn't read like a basketball town, unless you remember what the NBA was like before it exploded into the mainstream in the Eighties: back when cities like Seattle, Baltimore, and Philadelphia moved the needle.
~ Rowan Ricardo Phillips
There is no positive outlook about Shawn Kemp in Seattle. When that name is mentioned, it brings nothing but negativity.
~ Shawn Kemp
When I came out with 'Posse on Broadway,' I decided, enough with trying to imitate New York, enough with trying to imitate L.A., let's just be Seattle. And rock, grunge, followed right after 'Posse on Broadway' and Seattle just exploded.
~ Sir Mix-a-Lot
Growing up in Seattle, I had the opportunity to take classes since I was 7 years old. I did theatre. I auditioned for film, television, commercials, and built up not just a resume but also some confidence. I learned how to master my craft before arriving in Los Angeles.
~ Zoe McLellan
Seattle is this curious liberal 'island.'
~ Jonathan Raban
I'm damn proud to be a Seattle Mariner.
~ Ken Griffey Jr.
There's a Kiss through-line to a lot of the music that came out of Seattle, and it hasn't been talked about a lot.
~ Mike McCready
We'd caught a commuter flight from there to Philadelphia, and from there to Seattle and now Fairbanks. It reminded me a little of the crazy flights I'd had to take from Siberia back to the U.S. That journey had also gone via Seattle. I was starting to believe that city was a gateway to obscure places.
~ Richelle Mead