Quotes About Florida

His car....had the black-tinted windows I usually associated with south Florida or drug dealers. Or is that redundant?

Maybe you should get new sheets for Florida's kids, Jodi Baxter. Would you want someone else's old sheets for your kids?

By the 1780s, Florida was home to Spanish-speaking Africans, fugitive slaves from the colonies, and indigenous and migrated Indian tribes, including the Seminoles. Fugitive slaves established maroon settlements in Spanish Florida with names like "Disturb Me If You Dare" and "Try Me If You Be Men.

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.

Florida is a blend of many societies... Each has a colorful and exciting history that they bring to our state.

Punta Rassa," Emma repeated. "That's a pretty name. Does it mean anything?" "It means twelve dollars a cow, and we got a hundred and forty-eight of them. I can't even figure that high.

Is there 'gators in the river?" "Mister, there ain't no water in Florida without 'gators, 'less you got a tub of it in your house. And one's liable to get in there too if you leave the door open.

I'm not a fearful person," Joss said, invoking her mountaineering bona fides. "If K2 doesn't scare me, Florida does not scare me." (She had not climbed K2.)

I have a Florida concealed firearms permit. But then, who doesn't? We have about nine hundred thousand residents licensed to carry concealed weapons, tops in the nation. Take that, Texas!

Hey, it's Florida. Toss a beach ball at me, I'll empty my .45 into you and be home in time for Jimmy Kimmel.

South Florida, home to shallow traditions and feigned loyalties, fast-buck artists and fly-by-night businesses.

Cuban refugees to Key West found a relatively easy pathway to the ballot box via "declarant alien voting," which was passed by Florida's Reconstruction legislature in 1868 ("declarant aliens" were resident aliens who declared their intent to naturalize).62 According to Article 14 of the 1868 Florida constitution, a man who swore to defend the laws of the land and to eventually become a citizen could vote.