Missouri Quotes:

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.

- George Catlin

source: George Catlin (1857). “Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: With Letters and Notes Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing ; with 360 Engravings, from the Author's Original Paintings”, p.23

topic: Tribes, Finest, Missouri

I've been very active in Missouri.

- Jim Talent

source: "Talent Positioning for Rematch Against McCaskill" by Erin McPike, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 11, 2010.

topic: Missouri, Active

I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.

- Steve Cropper

topic: Country, Missouri, Raised

We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.

- Tippi Hedren

topic: Lions, Missouri, Basements

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

- Brad Pitt

source: "Brad Pitt on Gay Marriage, Smoking Pot and 'Real Love'" by Dotson Rader, parade.com. August 5, 2009.

topic: Bragging, Missouri, Ifs

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

- Buffalo Bill

topic: Men, Slave, Granted, Free State, Missouri

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.

- William Henry Ashley

topic: War, Gun, Arrows, Bows And Arrows, Missouri

After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

- Barney Ross

topic: War, Bombs, Tokyo, Atomic Bomb, Missouri

The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.

- George Catlin

source: George Catlin (2012). “Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians”, p.17, Courier Corporation

topic: Character, Rivers, Water, Mississippi, Missouri

If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

- Eleanor Clift

topic: Strong, Zero, War, Ground Zero, Missouri

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

- Andrew Taylor Still

source: Andrew Taylor Still (1897). “Autobiography of Andrew T. Still: With a History of the Discovery and Development of the Science of Osteopathy, Together with an Account of the Founding of the American School of Osteopathy”

topic: Children, War, Doctors, During The Civil War, Missouri

But we did conclude that Ray had actually killed Dr. King pursuant to his theory that he was going to be able to get hold of that money. He had learned of this offer through his ties in the Missouri State Penitentiary.

- Louis Stokes

topic: Kings, Ties, Rays, Missouri

I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.

- Cole Younger

source: Cole Younger (2014). “The Story of Cole Younger”, p.19, Minnesota Historical Society Press

topic: Life, Robbing, States, Missouri

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

- Ted Shackelford

topic: College, Men, Denver, Westminster, Missouri

We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.

- Meriwether Lewis

source: Meriwether Lewis, William Clark (1842). “History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri: Thence Across the Rockey Mountains, and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean ; Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.126

topic: Summer, Black, Mountain, Last Summer, Missouri

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri

- Dan Simmons

topic: Teaching, School, Years, Elementary School, Missouri

For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.

- Mel Carnahan

topic: Sex, Past, Years, Missouri

Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world

- Ike Skelton

topic: Country, World, Regulation, Livestock, Missouri

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.

- Cole Younger

topic: Long, People, Peculiar, Long Lines, County

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

- Christopher Bond

topic: Years, Vermont, Kind, National Guard, Missouri

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Sunset, Done, Losing, Interest In Politics, Losing Interest

I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.

- James MacArthur

topic: Agriculture, Colorado, Skis, Lodges, Missouri

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

- Francis Parkman

source: Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.3, VM eBooks

topic: Morning, Kansas, Mouths, Missouri

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

topic: Change, Heart, Past, Missouri

I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.

- Harry S. Truman

source: Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

topic: Song, Stars, Giving, Waltz, Don't Give A Damn

Electric service providers in Missouri have warned that the EPA's so-called Clean Power Plan will raise energy costs for Missourians, reduce jobs, and hurt our state's economic competitiveness. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I've fought hard to ensure provisions that would defund this harmful power grab were included in the final appropriations bill. I also support legislation to block this harmful rule and protect workers and families from the damaging effects of the Obama Administration's executive overreach and costly energy regulations.

- Roy Blunt

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Hurt, Jobs, Block, Competitiveness, Service Providers

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings”, p.339, Penguin

topic: Boys, Towns, Small Town, Missouri

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

- John Adams

source: John Adams (1997). “Rivoluzioni e Costituzioni”, p.37, Guida Editori

topic: Evil, Slavery, Magnitude, Colossal, Missouri

I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts of England; I have witnessed a congress in solemn session to give laws to nations;...but dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains at midnight, in a dungeon, in an obscure village of Missouri.

- Parley P. Pratt

source: Parley P. Pratt (2008). “Spirituality: The Key to the Science of Theology”, p.11, Cedar Fort

topic: Law, Giving, Justice, Robes, Session

We've actually seen Black man murders [in] many a major city in the United States - New York City, St. Louis, Missouri, from Cleveland to Baltimore. It was those sorts of incidents that were very much prevalent in the forefront of that jury's conscience that allowed them to believe that this man [O.J. Simpson] could have been set up.

- Sterling K. Brown

topic: New York, Believe, Men, Missouri

Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.

- William Least Heat-Moon

topic: Ocean, Rivers, Twenties, Pacific Ocean, Missouri

We’re going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years are better than their good years. But we’ve created a standard.

- DeLoss Dodds

topic: School, Years, Standards, Missouri, Good Years

If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to say he went under while conservationists weren't looking.

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Sorry, White, Add, Lewis And Clark, Old West

Imposing excessive new regulations, or closing coal-fired power plants, would produce few health or environmental benefits. But it would exact huge costs on society - and bring factories, offices and economies to a screeching halt in states that are 80-98% dependent on coal: Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.

- Paul Driessen

topic: Virginia, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia, Missouri

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

- Charles Jencks

source: Charles Jencks (2012). “The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture”, p.1, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Block, July, Grace, Modern Architecture, Dynamite

I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.

- Warren MacKenzie

topic: Art, Cities, Kansas City, Missouri

Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the Lord's totem pole, it's very brave of you to invite the "resident atheist" of mid-Missouri to share her thoughts with you.

- Ruth Hurmence Green

topic: Atheist, Brave, Atheism, Residents, Missouri

Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer seduced by the uncanny and the unearthly. In Lilith's Cave, he once again reaches into a magical cornucopia of folklore and fantasy and spreads before us, in enchanting language, the marvels and shocks of dybbuks, ghosts, demons, spirits, and wizards.

- Cynthia Ozick

topic: Christian, Brother, Caves, Folklore, Lilith

If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices.

- Roy Blunt

source: "Obama warns on student loan interest" by Josh Boak, www.politico.com. April 21, 2012.

topic: Senior, Jobs, America, Gas Prices, Job Creators

Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground, of the magnolia, and the Florida keys, and their warm sea breezes; of the fence-rail, and the cotton-tree, and the migrations of the rice-bird; of the breaking up of winter in Labrador, and the melting of the snow on the forks of the Missouri; and owe an accession of health to these reminiscences of luxuriant nature.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays: Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, The Landlord, Walking, Sir Walter Raleigh, Paradise (to be) Regained, Herald of Freedom, A Plea for Captain John Brown, The Highland Light, Dark Ages…”, p.79, e-artnow

topic: Nature, Reading, Book, Sea Breeze, Magnolias

Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.

- Hayley Atwell

source: "Hayley Atwell Is a Woman We Love" by Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. July 19, 2011.

topic: Summer, Dad, Kansas, Missouri

I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back.

- Bill Ferguson

topic: Love, Authority, Columbia, Missouri

But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's men two or three times. All they were trying to do was protect the property on the Missouri side of the line.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: War, Men, Two, Bandits, Missouri

I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through.

- Helen Thomas

topic: Independence, Firsts, Bills, Missouri

i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm)

- e. e. cummings

source: E. E. Cummings (1996). “Is 5”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Uncles, Buttons, Coffins, Missouri

Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country.

- George W. Bush

source: "America decides". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2004.

topic: Country, Practice, Able, Bluffs, Missouri

People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again

- James St. James

source: James St. James (2003). “Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

topic: Moving, Mean, People, Moving Back, Overdose

I'm the one not caring. I'm the one pretending the Earth isn't shattering all around me because I don't want it to be. I don't want to know there was an earthquake in Missouri. I don't want to know the Midwest can die, also, that what's going on isn't just tides and tsunamis. I don't want to have any more to be afraid of. I didn't start this diary for it to be a record of death.

- Susan Beth Pfeffer

source: Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Caring, Earthquakes, Diaries, Missouri

I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people of Missouri, but let them settle that matter for themselves. I hold that the people of the slaveholding States are civilized men as well as ourselves, that they bear consciences as well as we, and that they are accountable to God and their posterity and not to us. It is for them to decide therefore the moral and religious right of the slavery question for themselves within their own limits.

- Stephen A. Douglas

topic: Religious, Men, Rights, Religious Rights, Missouri

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

- Denis O'Hare

topic: Detroit, Accents, Born, Missouri

How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he puts up more or less every week. Howie Long once gave a great explanation of what it was like to get beat by quarterback legend Joe Montana. He said it was like getting knocked out in a pillow fight. You never felt the blow. And you were all kinds of mad afterward. That's as good as any description of Daniel. ... So what does Daniel do? Something right. On every play. In chess, grandmasters will tell you that it's the most innocuous-looking moves that are deadliest.

- Joe Posnanski

topic: Moving, Fighting, Blow, Pillow Fights, Missouri

Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant, I would see you, and you, and you, and you, and every man, woman and child in the state, dead and buried. This means war.

- Nathaniel Lyon

topic: Children, War, Mean, Missouri