#seattle

For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years. ↗

— Gary Locke

#came #century #come #did #eight

I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle. ↗

— Gary Locke

#confess #criminal #days #good #grisham

I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle. ↗

— Gary Locke

#assumed #because #came #i #i came

I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible. ↗

— Gary Locke

#calm #earthquakes #fires #floods #forest

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#experiment #extent #frontier #grow #happen

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there. ↗

— Randy Johnson

#got #i #listened #much #music

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#early 1990s #emerged #grunge #influence #major

Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it. ↗

— Kimberly Kinrade

#culture-identity #seattle #truth #love

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#bohemian #dad #fiction #had #i

Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.' ↗

— Patrick Ewing

#every #every time #hearing #i #instead