Quotes About Oklahoma

It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

I probably would have played baseball if I had stayed in California... But I like Oklahoma better now. Football is bigger here. It's more exciting, anyway.

Oklahoma senator Fred Harris, who ran for president as a Democrat in 1976.

I noticed that the houses in Fort Smith were numbered but it was no city at all compared to Little Rock. I thought then and still think that Fort Smith ought to be in Oklahoma instead of Arkansas...

It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

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

We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either.

The dust blew all over the Great Plains, but the worst and most persistent storms were in parts of five states—southern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, and northeastern New Mexico.

We filmed part of it here at the Alex Theatre in Los Angeles, and then we filmed the other part of it in Oklahoma because that's where I live. It's called 'Darci Lynne: My Hometown Christmas.' We wanted to incorporate that I celebrate Christmas just like any other kid.

It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.

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.

Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to speak, the way I was able to do.

Carrie Underwood was just a small-town Oklahoma girl with big dreams in 2005 when she competed on the fourth season of 'American Idol.' She is one of the few true 'American Idol' success stories and went on to have incredible career success.

Oklahoma has been so great to me.

In Oklahoma, the girls like the big football players. Girls were more interested in those guys, and I was, like, kind of a drama kid.

'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.

I'm the only one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that has Final Draft on my computer. Then you show up and go to any coffee shop in L.A., and there are a hundred people your age with Final Draft.

Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.

Oklahoma's always been good to me.

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

I felt I was in a good place with Oklahoma.

Actually, I didn't listen to country music very much in Oklahoma. I listened to blues and rock n' roll.