Kansas State Quotes

#1. Ad astra per aspera. It's the Kansas state motto," he said to Roger and me, "To the stars through adversity

Morgan Matson

#2. After the Cougars' 19-15 Cotton Bowl victory over Kansas State We're the only team in NCAA history to win 14 games in a season. It was just a great experience and I can't say enough about it ... People don't know how difficult it is to get up for 15 games.

LaVell Edwards

#3. Tom Jr. was steeped in Free Soil politics and was now chief justice of the Kansas State Supreme Court.

Robert L. O'Connell

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

Jane D. Hull

#5. The highest evidence of nobility in a Christian is self-control. We

Ellen G. White

#6. Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap the harvest.

Edward Brooke

#7. Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

Simon Winchester

#8. 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

#9. What's the total area, in square miles, of the state of Kansas?" he whispered. "Um, around 82,200; why?

John Green

#10. If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

Abraham Lincoln

#11. The only sacrifice that costs you nothing is staring at ugly girls.

M.F. Moonzajer

#12. The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.

Fred Thompson

#13. I am a basketball junkie, and as a product of the great basketball state of Kansas, I have watched many a ball game between the University of Kansas Jayhawks and the Tar Heels.

Sheri L. Dew

#14. I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state.

Jack Paar

#15. You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him

George Plimpton

#16. I am excited to bring elements of my lifestyle to the masses with the Rich Gang, and with Lil Wayne to be able to share the feel of our labels with the YMCMB Apparel brand.

Birdman

#17. Yesterday the Supreme Court lifted the ban on same-sex marriage in Kansas. They didn't give a reason for the ruling, but then again when a state is famous for a Judy Garland musical about a rainbow and a wizard who comes out of a closet, do you really need an excuse?

Jimmy Fallon

#18. Would you think it strange if I said I was having a good time? We're lost and confused and carrying around a cat. By all accounts, I should be feeling completely at a loss. Irritated.

Shelley Shepard Gray

#19. This isn't meant to make me sound interesting and rock 'n' roll, but I wouldn't want to live with me a lot of the time.

Martin Freeman

#20. There has always been Darkness, just as there has always been Light. Neither can ever be completely destroyed, only driven away or contained, because neither can exist without the other. Without Darkness, there is no Light, and vice versa.

Christine Warren

#21. I want to see this lady out the front gate and into her car and off the street and out of town and then removed from the county and then the whole state and finally relocated to the place they call Tornado Alley in Kansas.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#22. It was a beautiful, clear Southern California kind of Christmas Eve, the kind where Santa shows up in khaki shorts and a Hawaiian shirt and shades, flashing a peace sign with one hand and sipping a Corona with the other.

Z.A. Maxfield

#23. I never expected anyone in my family to change, and especially not my father, who changed first and most profoundly: He died.

Melissa Bank