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  • I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

  • It was really special for Bass Pro Shops to take Tracker off the side and put Joplin, Missouri on there. They have helped me a lot this past week with putting together ways to raise money to help rebuild Joplin. It's my hometown. It was heartbreaking to see the tornado and see all the people that lost their homes and the ones that lost their lives. It is really special that Johnny let us put that on there. Hopefully we made some people proud tonight.

    Home   Past   People  
  • We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, 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 (2012). “Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians”, p.17, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

    Block   July   Grace  
    Charles Jencks (2012). “The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture”, p.1, John Wiley & Sons
  • I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.

    Agency   Years   Class  
    "Tribeca Exclusive Interview: Evan Peters Talks ‘American Horror Story’ And ‘Adult World’". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.inquisitr.com. April 21, 2013.
  • 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.

    New York   Believe   Men  
    Source: www.ebony.com
  • The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.

    School   People   Support  
  • 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

    Moving   Mean   People  
    James St. James (2003). “Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
  • I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

    Art   College   Littles  
  • 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.

    Law   Giving   Justice  
    Parley P. Pratt (2008). “Spirituality: The Key to the Science of Theology”, p.11, Cedar Fort
  • I've been very active in Missouri.

    "Talent Positioning for Rematch Against McCaskill" by Erin McPike, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 11, 2010.
  • The people I'm honored to represent in Missouri and all over the country want leaders to address their kitchen table everyday problems.

    "Sen. Richard Gephardt's Speech Text". abcnews.go.com. August 16.
  • 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.

    Nature   Reading   Book  
    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
  • 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.

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

    Men   Slave   Granted  
    Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press
  • Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain.

    "Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. Janary 12, 2015.
  • 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.

    Long   People   Peculiar  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Source: www.aaa.si.edu
  • I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.

  • 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.

    Ocean   Rivers   Twenties  
  • I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.

    Summer   Night   Oklahoma  
    Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.
  • Federal overreach from agencies like the EPA is hurting family farms. I will fight against these crippling regulations, and always side with the hard working farmers and ranchers of Missouri.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Years   Vermont   Kind  
  • When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

    Kids   Tulsa   Littles  
  • Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part of our slave-holding country is more noted for the barbarity of its inhabitants than St. Louis.

    Country   Sugar   Growing  
    William Wells Brown (2012). “The Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
  • I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.

  • As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.

    Country   Wall   Men  
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