Quotes About Florida

William D. Collier was not related to the advertising millionaire Barron Collier, who later became the largest landowner in the area and state, and namesake of Collier County, Florida.

Following the coast northward, he named the terra firma off his port side La Florida in recognition of the Easter season, known in Spain as Pascua Florida, "feast of flowers.

In one such painting, Shell Heap, sabal

In another experiment in 1955, the CIA released the whooping cough virus over Tampa, Florida without telling anyone, so they could see how quickly it would spread; they got their data, and twelve innocent civilians died.

What you had in Florida was just heat. Heat that was fine and pleasant about a third of the time, a little uncomfortable about a third of the time, and a third of the time like walking through steam. Like walking through clouds of your own sweat.

I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin ' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.

I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.

Then she would be that hostess in Houston and I would be that tanned one from Florida, a small memory of chlorinated pool water, fruit juice and gin, steak raw in the middle, and hearty rhythms in the draperied twilight of the tomb-cool motel cubicle, riding the grounded flesh of the jet-stream Valkyrie. A harmless pleasure. For harmless plastic people, scruff-proof, who can create the delusion of romance.

The sun was visible from Florida, but it hadn't gotten to me.

Just observe the billboards along any busy Florida highway and you'll almost wish you could get injured.

I can't imagine who would be covering a hearing in a forgotten case in East Nowhere, Florida.

movement to reform the practice of solitary confinement was struggling to gain momentum. Said movement had not made it to Florida.

I sold them to a dealer named Bruce Cable, owns a nice bookstore on Camino Island, Florida.

There are more numb-nuts around here than in the Florida state legislature, which, believe me, was a whole passel of numb-nuts.

I'm also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, "Do not actually put your hand in the alligator," while terror says, "Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist.

Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.

I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job.

The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades of Florida. It is a river of grass.

There are no other Everglades in the world…. The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning of the central fact of the Everglades of Florida. It is a river of grass.

The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.

That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.

Once again the lake slammed through the dike like a truck driving through puddling, sending a fifteen-foot-high tsunami through the upper Glades, drawing the towns of Miami Locks, South Bay, Chosen, Pahokee, and Belle Glade, where the Glades Hotel was the only building left standing after the storm.