#kansas

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#farming #fight #grandparents #illinois #kansas

Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state? ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#america #city #could #else #end

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#city #kansas #kansas city #necessary #order

I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit. ↗

— Paul Pierce

#college #course #golf #golf course #good

I cannot understand why you should wish to leave this beautiful country and go back to the dry, gray place you call Kansas." "That is because you have no brains," answered the girl. "No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home." The Scarecrow sighed. "Of course I cannot understand it," he said. "If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#kansas #oz #beauty

Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year? ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#arkansas #billion #college #college degree #could

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues. ↗

— Jay McShann

#christian #family #get #had #i

A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#brought #few #hours #kansas #ride

The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#credit #farmers #farming #farms #kansas

There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed. ↗

— Shirley Knight

#kansas #place #you