Downstate Quotes

#1. There was a big old St. Bernard went rabid downstate a couple of years ago and killed four people.

Stephen King

#2. Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up.

Tom Barbash

#3. A cop friend downstate had once described what he called the 'pucker effect,' the body's automatic response when something just wasn't right. He wasn't talking about the lips; the puckering happened farther south, and every cop learned to trust that instinct.

Jim C. Hines

#4. As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.

Edmund Phelps

#5. Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.

Andrew Cuomo

#6. If there's a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that's struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer even if it's not my grandparent.

Barack Obama

#7. Some for the Glories of the World, and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come;

Steven Weinberg

#8. Knowledge Gives You Power.

Maxwell Maltz

#9. You can shuffle my deck any day!

Bruce Forsyth

#10. When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

William Hague

#11. 'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

Adam McKay

#12. A revolution, woven in the dim light of mystery, has kept me from you. Another revolution will return me to your arms, bring me back to life.

Jose Rizal