Iowan Quotes

#1. I come here as one of you - an Iowan!

Michele Bachmann

#2. God had a plan for everything. I never knew I'd come to Iowa, but now I love Iowa. Everything is so great about it - the people, the environment, education. I'm so proud to say I'm an Iowan. I'm living the dream.

Liang Chow

#3. Flor and Juan Diego and Lupe were the Iowan's projects; Edward Bonshaw saw them through the eyes of a born reformer, but he did not love them less for looking upon them in this fashion.

John Irving

#4. When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

Bill Bryson

#5. Christians rejected the need for proof to support belief in God, yet dismissed proof altogether when it was there.

Kira Peikoff

#6. Don't profane yourself, or the Biodag Dubh.
Oh, Mary Ann. Me and the Beedak Doo are just fine.

Kendare Blake

#7. I want a lot of people to see my movies. More black people. More white people. I want to make that connection.

Tyler Perry

#8. Because life is a gift.

Kim Holden

#9. Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

Dinesh D'Souza

#10. Until I learned to love myself, I was never ever lovin' nobody else.

Madonna Ciccone

#11. It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.

Elliot Richardson

#12. A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.

Aleister Crowley

#13. Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.

Anouk Aimee

#14. Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.

Mandy Moore