Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it. — Big Sean
Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing. — Jami Gertz
I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is! — Ashton Kutcher
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast. — Jim Harrison
Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas. — Trevor Dunn
Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future. — Leonard Boswell
In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have. — LeBron James
I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. — Michael Douglas
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods. — Terry Gilliam
I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness. — Sean William Scott
Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1. — Dar Williams
I'm from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer. — Jessica Szohr
Short Midwest Quotes
I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on. — Bill Goldberg
I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I cant enjoy anything. — Kyle Kinane
In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child. — Suzanne Farrell
Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest. — Michelle Pfeiffer
Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills. — Nick Goepper
Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid. — Derek Walcott
There is something about Midwest in general, that has kind of an underdog quality. — Celeste Ng
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa. — Richard Powers
Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent. — Jeremy Piven
Midwestern Quotes
My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: The turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie. — Douglas Conant
I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were a response to that repression. — Hugh Hefner
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. — Diane Ackerman
I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s. — Hugh Hefner
I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold. — Amy Poehler
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses. — Barbara Ehrenreich
As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values. — Jim Doyle
What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight. — Charles Baxter
Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners. — Ron Wyden
Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids. — Anne Hull
I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado. — Joe Lando
The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill. — Mike Pence
Jon Davis was a fan and came out on stage with us somewhere in the Midwest and came out in a Suicide Silence shirt and a kilt and did his thing. — Mitch Lucker
I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city. — Michael Symon
In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us. — Bernie Sanders
As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest. — Donald Johanson
Irish is harder to pull off. I know southern people and I really like the midwest, so I can tap into that a little bit. It's easier to sound angry with southern than it is Irish. Yelling Irish you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. I think me screaming like I am going to kill you in Irish doesn't work. — Norman Reedus
Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to. — Luke Perry
For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room. — David Foster Wallace
There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold. — Ajay Naidu
Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother. — Charley Pride
The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard. — Patrick Carney
I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak. — Richard Beymer
I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening. — Bob Balaban
I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth-that would get people very concerned about climate change. — Thomas Schelling
I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it. — Jason Reitman
It was the coldest winter ever! I thought last winter was the coldest winter ever, but I was wrong now wasn't I? You see because I travel all the time. So last winter, I'd be in the midwest, and the blizzard would hit. And then I'd fly home, and the blizzard would hit again! — Lewis Black
Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat. — Lorrie Moore
I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not. — Kazuo Ishiguro
It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest. — Douglas Wilson
Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies. — Sydney Pollack
I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town. — Lesley Gore
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting. — Daniel Breaker
I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet. — Roger Taylor
She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker. — Lara Flynn Boyle
I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact. — Scott Walker
Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression. — Paul Rust
When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast. — Tommy Bolin
I was born in the Midwest, where "salad" was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods. — Candy Crowley
After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work. — Tracy Letts
You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard. — Dean Norris
I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between. — Johnny Galecki
There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL. — Lee Iacocca
I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world. — Jerry Springer
We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest. — Sayings
Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago, and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago. — Harold Ramis
There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle. — Jane Kaczmarek
Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation. — Andrew Rannells
The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home. — Vince Vaughn
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