Miami Florida Quotes

#1. When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.

Chris Bohjalian

#2. A Miami judge issued Florida's first gay marriage license yesterday, which makes it the 36th state to legally perform gay marriages. Of course, most Florida residents are too old to understand what that means. They'll say, 'Well, I think all marriages should be gay, and merry.'

Jimmy Fallon

#3. I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.

Fred Rogers

#4. Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.

Tom Peters

#5. A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader ... as an irritating voice is to a listener.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#6. Fighters are fighters. We got each others backs in terms of support.

Tommy Morrison

#7. What finger-shaped Florida lacks in breadth it makes up for in length; Tallahassee is 480 miles from Miami (farther than New York City is from Cleveland). The

Philip Caputo

#8. Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.

Rick Riordan

#9. I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

Sidney Poitier

#10. The best player I ever coached was Gary Payton.

George Karl

#11. The upshot here is that Gil Scott-Heron is still a warrior, even if the front lines have moved. He's made a record not without hope but which doesn't come with any easy or comforting answers. In that way, the man is clearly still committed to speaking the truth.

Will Hermes

#12. Who is going to teach fighting spirit to our kids if they are growing up watching us sitting in a comfortable zone in life.
We got to wake up and fight it out in our areas of passion, and be an example for our kids.

Manoj Arora

#13. One way or the other , the case coming before a federal judge in Miami July 2 challenging Florida's 6-year-old constitutional ban on same-sex marriages could be the next shoe to drop.

Anonymous

#14. A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

Edna Buchanan

#15. The greatest mistake you can make is to fear making a mistake.

John Capozzi

#16. Well, I was born in Miami, and then I lived for a long time in Tallahassee, and before that, Winter Haven, which is a tiny town in Florida. I was not a city girl.

Cheryl Hines

#17. Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

#18. Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#19. That's painful always to lose.

Rafael Nadal

#20. I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

Patricia Ireland

#21. The hurt affects your ability to go forward.

Deb Caletti

#22. Harry leaned forward. You put your penis on the page.

Hanif Kureishi

#23. I'm a one-hundred-percent, made-in-Florida, dope-smugglin', time-sharin', spring-breakin', log-flumin', double-occupancy discount vacation. I'm a tall glass of orange juice and a day without sunshine. I'm the wind in your sails, the sun on your burn and the moon over Miami. I am the native.

Tim Dorsey