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Quotes About Missouri

Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you,Way-hay, you rolling river!Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you,Ha-ha, we're bound away,'Cross the wide Missouri!
~ Anonymous: Shanties
Missouri businesses, manufacturers, health care providers, schools, churches, and many other entities across the state did not hesitate to step up and help their communities in the fight against COVID-19.
~ Mike Parson
One of my top priorities as lieutenant governor has been promoting Missouri businesses through the Buy Missouri program, highlighting the numerous products from dog food to windows that are produced in communities across our state.
~ Mike Parson
A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
~ Bayard Taylor
Missouri's public safety officers and first responders courageously and selflessly take on tremendous risks each time they answer a call. Each time they respond, they are quietly reaffirming their solemn commitment to risk their own lives to protect others. For this, they deserve our thanks, and continued prayers and support.
~ Mike Parson
Missouri Ann ate her bit of orange slowly. Tastes like summer, she said.
~ Sandra Dallas
Our roads, bridges, airports, railways, and river ports are our outlets to expand Missouri business, generate future growth, and expand to new emerging markets across the globe.
~ Mike Parson
I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
~ Sally Rand
We just started filming 'Stray Dog' really close to the finishing of 'Winter's Bone,' down in Southern Missouri.
~ Debra Granik
I was actually born in Madison, Wisconsin, but raised in urban Missouri.
~ Taylor Louderman
But the Missouri—my brother—is the eternal Fighting Man!
~ John G. Neihardt
Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.
~ Brad Pitt
Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.
~ Francis Parkman
We'd been living in the Arkansas Ozarks, then the Missouri Ozarks, because it is so inexpensive and does have natural wonders, but we shuffled things and moved to San Francisco, the corner of Dashiell Hammett and Pine.
~ Daniel Woodrell
I think the hardest thing about doing an accent, especially with a Missouri accent, is making sure that you're not mumbling with the words so your diction is clear.
~ Julia Garner
Yes, I live a crazy, exciting, whatever life, but I do think it's quite relatable because it has to be - I'm just a girl from St Louis, Missouri that has lived life like anyone else. There are things that are crazy and over the top, but the basic thread is my family, my career, trying to live and pursuing my dreams.
~ Kimora Lee Simmons
Our success marketing goods to consumers outside of our borders has played a big role in allowing Missouri's agricultural industry to grow and thrive.
~ Mike Parson
I didn't even dream of going to college. College was not in my definition. If somebody told me I was going to play for the Missouri Tigers in 2009, I would laugh at them.
~ Michael Sam
After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
~ Barney Ross
At the time of the formation of the euro, I would say most American economists said that's not a good idea; that's not a currency area that makes sense. And the answer from Europe was, 'How is Missouri and Mississippi a currency area?' But the flaw in that was not recognizing the importance of mobility.
~ Austan Goolsbee
I had my own booth at Fan Fair when I was 9 or 10 years old. I made a little record and I had a manager in Missouri, so we came up to Fan Fair to sell those records and try to get me a record deal. Clearly it wasn't meant to be at 10 years old, but my memory is that I went to use the bathroom, and I met Sylvia. I was in shock.
~ Sara Evans
Immigrants have and will continue to have an important role in Missouri and the United States. However, we must work together to help control the amount of illegal activity that passes through this country while giving legal immigrants a chance to succeed in this country.
~ Mike Parson
The people in Washington are getting rich with our money. Under President Barack Obama, the federal government swelled to record size, and it took more and more of our money to pay for it. Who benefitted? Not Missouri farmers or workers.
~ Josh Hawley
Missouri families deserve the best early childhood system our state can provide. This is also a critical area of workforce development for our state.
~ Mike Parson