#missouri

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.' ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

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In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging. ↗

— Brad Pitt

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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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I've been very active in Missouri. ↗

— Jim Talent

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There'll be the lightning bugs with their Morse code display, And shooting stars and constellations to befriend; The dragonflies will keep us from going astray, As we search for new adventures 'round every bend. -excerpted from the poem 'The Huge Playroom that is Nature' in the book FROM GUAM TO CROWN CITY CORONADO (THANKS TO HERMANN, MISSOURI): A JOURNEY IN POESY ↗

— Mariecor Ruediger

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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

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Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible. ↗

— Chely Wright

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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. ↗

— Cole Younger

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We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

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Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings. ↗

— Bob Holden

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