Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Jackson

Oklahoma's always been good to me.

Edna Ferber

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

Bobby Heenan

Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.

Brad Henry

This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.

Brad Henry

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

Brad Pitt

I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

Brad Pitt

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

Blake Bailey

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

Edward Abbey

One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

N. Scott Momaday

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

I don't understand this jury. But I have one consolation: (Nichols and Timothy McVeigh) are still going to be tried in Oklahoma City.

I don't understand this jury, ... But I have one consolation: (Nichols and Timothy McVeigh) are still going to be tried in Oklahoma City.

Reggie Bush

I don't have to down-talk Oklahoma. Everyone saw the way we played, saw the way Oklahoma played. It's really pretty self-explanatory.

Anita Hill

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977

Don Nickles

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

Carrie Underwood

We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either.

Bill Self

I thought it was two teams playing really hard. I thought Oklahoma State played really tough and it rebounded well and pressured us out of what we wanted to do. We kind of did the same to them for awhile.

Timothy McVeigh

Yes, ... That thing in Oklahoma City, I guess.

Markwayne Mullin

You've got to respect people; you've got to understand where they come from. We know where people in Oklahoma come from - that's why we get along.

Gary Busey

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

Christian Kane

I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler.

Chris Paul

I had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes.

It would have been better for USC if Oklahoma had put up more of a fight.

I showcased Oklahoma and not the people, unless it was the people who had contributed to the state, but not politicians.

Gary Blair

Oklahoma played excellent. We played pretty good. We've got to raise our standards a little bit.

Kristin Chenoweth

I love eating at Sonic with my family in Oklahoma. And no, I'm not kidding.

J. C. Watts

As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.

J. C. Watts

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

J. C. Watts

I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.

Oscar Hammerstein II

Oklahoma Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain.

Lizz Winstead

This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives.

Mary Fallin

I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.

Mick Cornett

I've never seen a tornado and I've lived in Oklahoma City basically my whole life. It's not like we're infested with them on a continual basis. But you learn to live with the warnings. And you learn what to do if one is coming your way. And then you cross your fingers and make the best judgments you can.