Quotes About Iowa

I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.

I'm sure the apple guys from Washington state or the corn guy from Iowa will not like tariffs on corn or apples.

I thought, from watching TV and stuff, that America was one place. They only show you L.A. and New York. They don't warn you about Iowa.

I'd never been on a plane until I went to the Peach Bowl my freshman year at Iowa.

I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason.

I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa.

As I watched on TV the nest of reporters and groupies surround Palin at the Iowa State Fair, I couldn't help but sit back and wonder if she's become the ultimate party crasher for the Republican Party.

In the fields of southwest Iowa, my parents and grandparents worked and sacrificed. Like so many Iowans, the American Dream for them was never about wealth or fame. Their dream was to leave their children and grandchildren a better life, with greater opportunity, than their own.

From here in Iowa, it seems to be the wealthy and big corporations get enough help.

Volunteering is as Iowan as pork chop on a stick at the State Fair.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

It is amazing what a cute little... girl from Iowa can do.

In Iowa, we take care of people. That's all I think I need to say.

You can't drive through Iowa and not think about farming: No less than 85 percent of the land in the state is devoted to farms, many of them more than 1,000 acres. This is the place where seeds are sown. It's where farmers grow the corn that will be fed to pigs as grain or fed to you as syrup or fermented to ethanol for your gas tank.

I'm sure lots of schools have students who are able to form bonds of friendship across sexual identity stereotypes... even in Iowa

In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, 'Where is my food?'

The first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus is crucial for every presidential campaign.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

Of course, Andrzej never managed to leave Iowa, but the idea was good and romantic. That's what all Polish boys like when they are seventeen years old: Romantic ideas and somewhere to go.

My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.

As a mom, grandma and governor of Iowa, I believe we have an opportunity and a responsibility to combat the teen vaping epidemic.

The dictionary says progress means moving forward. Herbert Hoover was just a boy in Iowa. Then he lived all over the world helping solve problems. Now he is president of the United States. That is progress. And Iowas is part of progress. So I am part of progress. - Tugs Button

My grandmother from Iowa, she is dancing in Heaven at the prospect that the next president of the United States is going to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.

There a series of Catholic rituals and teachings had offered her young life a coherent universe. By 1946, Savannah had for O'Connor ceded to the university world of Iowa, where new influences, including intellectual joys, brought with them questions and skepticism.