Quotations About Places
Related: Kansas
Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter - and hell spends the summer.
Saying
Modified 1930s slogan
Modified 1930s slogan
I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it here in Kansas City.
Roger Maris
Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there."
Truman Capote
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
George F. Will
I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
L. Frank Baum
You know you live in Phoenix when the cold-water faucet is hotter than the hot-water faucet.
Unknown
I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.
Jelly Roll Morton
You know you live in Phoenix when the four seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and are you freakin' kidding me?!
Unknown
He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.
Gore Vidal
Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.
Ben Webster
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
Groucho Marx
But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.
Kathleen Sebelius
The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.
Will Rogers
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
John Updike
Myths that need clarification: "Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach." False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos.
Erma Bombeck
Arizona looks like a battle on Mars.
Unknown
And Kansas is at Chicago tonight or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas leads in the eighth four-to-four.
Jerry Coleman
A three-inch rain in Phoenix means three inches between drops.
Local Saying