Quotes About Heartland

Being from the heartland of America, I do not think one should have to go to Washington to seek justice.

Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know?

Indianapolis is a great Midwestern city. Great people. Warm, friendly people.

Without even being aware that he was abandoning his original strategy, Grant developed a new plan for simultaneous massive attacks on the Confederate heartland by all the Union armies.

June, Nebraska

As a consequence, the heartland of America, filled with people who are often fundamentalist in religion, nativist in prejudice, isolationist in foreign policy, and conservative in economics, has constantly rumbled with an underground revolt against all these tormenting manifestations of our modern predicament.

Somewhere out there lay Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Wuppertal and Cologne, the German industrial heartland, the mighty Rhine, but all I could see were the lights on the Autobahn.

Poorly negotiated and lazily enforced trade deals have caused jobs to flee the heartland.

I just want to create a space in the heartland of India. I am hoping 'Bigg Boss' can help me do that in a positive manner.

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

Kazakhstan is Mackinder's Heartland!

Coastal elites" have become a kind of market-dominant minority from the point of view of America's heartland, and, as we've seen all over the developing world, market-dominant minorities invariably end up producing democratic backlash.

There are no kinder, more generous, more welcoming, more hospitable people in America than in the 92 counties of Indiana.

To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown.

cherished his Nebraska

The periphery of a place can tell us a great deal about its heartland. Along the edge of a nation's territory, its real prejudices, fears and obsessions — but also its virtues — irrepressibly bubble up as its people confront the 'other' whom they admire, or fear, or hold in contempt, and know little about.

and then he was running. Running hard like the settlers on the prairie racing to pound their stake into the hard, fertile ground of the heartland, securing their place and their children's places, the generations sprinting up under the blue sky.

I want to make more films in the heartland, the forgotten America.

Through our combined efforts the kids received your everyday heartland upbringing, based on the same old bedrock values: a belief in the importance of hard work, honesty, neighborliness, and thrift.

Where I grew up was a place called Salford, which was the industrial heartland of Manchester. And where I lived in Salford, I could walk to the center of Manchester within about 20 minutes. So I lived really close to the center.

Many people--whether they live in the heartland or on Fifth Avenue--like to think of New York City as so wild and extreme in its cultural fusion that it's an anomaly in the United States, almost a foreign entity. This book offers an alternative view: that beneath the level of myth and politics and high ideals, down where real people live and interact, Manhattan is where America began.

I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

'Newton' is a very Indian film. I think, after a long time, people will see an Indian film in its true form. As in the story, the character, it is set in the heartland of India, but it's purely like how there was a time when Hrishikesh Mukherjee used to make sweet Indian films.