Quotes About Midwest

They do not eat Yorkshire pudding on Sunday in Iowa.

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.

Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the Beverly Hillbillies.

The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic - those are sort of three layers of repression.

I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.

I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.

I'm from Oklahoma, and Nick's from a small town in Illinois.

I grew up in a small town in Iowa, town of about 500 people.

There is something about growing up in the Midwest that gives a different kind of sensibility. But if I'm feeling insecure, the smiles and politeness get upped a notch, and maybe that isn't totally reflective of how I'm feeling on the inside.

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Detective Karl Rolvaag belonged in the Midwest. This he knew in his heart, and he was reminded of it every day when he went to work.

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

I come from Kansas; we're steak-and-potato boys. I grew up on meat.

People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.

Closing his eyes, he held her tightly and sifted place in a general southerly direction, pushing to the farthest limits his diminished power could carry him. The moment he rematerialized, he instantly sifted again, arms locked around her. Railroad track. Sift. Grocery store. Keep moving. Roof of a house. Sift. Cornfield. Sift. Cornfield. Sift. Cornfield. Sift. Cornfield. Bloody Midwest. Sift.

My mom is painfully sweet she's from Nebraska.

I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town.

I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.

You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.