Quotes About Midwest

This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered.

I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.

I love the Midwest accent.

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.

I like healthful foods, but I'm from the Midwest, so I like food that's been around longer.

My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.

I just think - the Midwest, if you grow up there, you're deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any time a Midwesterner criticizes someone, it's usually involving some form of being too big for your britches.

It took me coming to the Midwest to realize I was the jerk. People are so nice here. They're so grounded.

Midwest elections have consequences.

I'm from the Midwest, so I know what Indiana basketball is all about and I'm very blessed to be a part of it.

I grew up in Minnesota.

no matter how cold it got in the mountain west, it was colder and damper in the Midwest. Maybe, he thought, it was why they were so damned tough.

I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since.

I'm always fascinated by people from the Midwest, because it is so different than Hollywood, who discover at some point that they want to be in Hollywood.

I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of the box." Some of that was true.

Books set in Brooklyn and L.A. are often about people who are rootless, who want to go somewhere else. In the Midwest, though, the stories are about people who want to stay where they are - who like where they are.

When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources. If we do not, it would do immense harm to the manufacturing industry in the Midwest.

I'm not from the South, but I love country music. And country music is really big in the Midwest. Connie Smith came from Ohio. Jessi Colter was from Arizona.

I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.

If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.

I'm from a really little town called Quincy, five hours southwest of Chicago.

Newton, Iowa, it was, where I'd taken that dawn walk in 1947. In the afternoon we crossed drowsy old Davenport again and the low-lying Mississippi in her sawdust bed; then Rock Island, a few minutes of traffic, the sun reddening, and sudden sights of lovely little tributary rivers flowing softly among the magic trees and greeneries of mid-American Illinois. It was beginning to look like the soft sweet East again; the great dry West was accomplished and done.

I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.