Top 100 Quotes About Iowa
#1. Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa.
Thomas Vilsack
#2. Iowa voters are intelligent enough to make up their minds.
Terry Branstad
#3. If there is a thread that unites all of our work, whether it's in Iowa or whether it's in Maryland or whether it's among our young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, I believe that it's the thread of human dignity.
Martin O'Malley
#4. Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.
Paul Engle
#5. If Iowa is the 'heart' land, what part of the human body is Los Angeles?
Pat Paulsen
#6. I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.
Marco Rubio
#7. The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different.
Andy Ogle
#8. Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.
Bill Bryson
#9. My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that after some delay when it was possible for me to go to college I had definitely decided to specialize in chemistry.
Wallace Carothers
#10. What is it about Iowa? I'm the shortest guy in the state.
Jason Alexander
#11. Oh, there's not much to tell. I served in the Ninth Iowa Infantry. That's where I met Frankie...Frank. I mean, Mr. Greerson. We were discharged almost a year go, July of last year, and stayed with my mother over the winter. And then we came here. That's about it.
Dean Frech
#12. What is this place? Heaven? <> Ha. <> You're supposed to say, It's Iowa.
Rainbow Rowell
#13. Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities
Chuck Grassley
#14. The greatest words you hear in college basketball are Ohio State advances. (The Iowa upset) is amazing. But again, it's all the proof you need that there's no guarantee.
Thad Matta
#15. I'm delighted to be back in coaching. Our goal is to put Iowa wrestling back on top, and I want to do everything I can to make it happen.
Dan Gable
#16. Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family.
Thomas Vilsack
#17. I love mythology, grew up loving it. I'm a middle kid, big family, that's the thing you did in the farm country. I lived in Iowa, I loved mythology. I don't know, we're like that.
Kellan Lutz
#18. Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?"
"I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends."
"You mean like Alaska?
Dana Stabenow
#19. In Iowa, we take care of people. That's all I think I need to say.
Steve King
#20. I want to caucus in Iowa. I'll caucus all over the state. I don't caucus in California. You don't caucus where you live. It doesn't look good.
Pat Paulsen
#21. In any year, the stats in Iowa show we are in a relatively safe location, but that can change dramatically; a lot of it depends on what travels through our campus.
Chuck Green
#22. I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.
Mitt Romney
#24. I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books she published, replied, "Classic books." One of the students asked her, "You mean like Kafka?" Apparently she said, "Oh, I don't think I would publish Kafka."
Matthew Specktor
#25. I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.
Geneva Carr
#26. I like Iowa. I know Iowa. I've spent some time in Iowa. Good people in Iowa. It's a great state.
Martin O'Malley
#27. I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far the most surreal moment.
Vanessa Kerry
#28. If you want to be a comedian, go out. Do a week in Des Moines, Iowa. Try to make those people laugh.
Nick Swardson
#29. Everything I need to know, I learned in Iowa. I grew up here in Iowa.
Michele Bachmann
#30. My grandmother from Iowa, she is dancing in Heaven at the prospect that the next president of the United States is going to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Cory Booker
#31. Gleaming like a searchlight, Iowa moon, silver plate.
Dennis Vickers
#32. I have never understood the Iowa caucus.
Larry King
#33. So I've come to Chicago to have a drink," he said. "I'm living in Iowa City for now. Have you ever been to Iowa City?" "I
Ann Patchett
#34. I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun. But I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.
John Darnielle
#35. Howard Dean came in a disappointing third place. Afterwards Dean said 'Iowa is behind me and now I look forward to screaming at voters in New Hampshire.'
Conan O'Brien
#36. They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.
Bill Bryson
#37. A major Iowa newspaper published an op-ed against Trump calling him a 'self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard.' Or as Trump put it, 'You forgot very rich ... I'm a very rich, self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard. Very, very rich.'
Jimmy Fallon
#38. There a series of Catholic rituals and teachings had offered her young life a coherent universe. By 1946, Savannah had for O'Connor ceded to the university world of Iowa, where new influences, including intellectual joys, brought with them questions and skepticism.
Flannery O'Connor
#39. Hillary Clinton wrote an Op-Ed for a paper in Iowa about her plans to help the middle class. Middle-class Americans said, 'Why didn't you just say that in a speech?' and she said, 'Because I charge $200,000 for a speech.'
Jimmy Fallon
#40. Appleby was a fair-haired boy from Iowa who believed in God, Motherhood and the American Way of Life, without ever thinking about any of them, and everybody who knew him liked him.
Joseph Heller
#41. Fire," she whispered. "Wind. I see dark things and a dark war. I see my death coming for me, out of the spirit world. And I see you at the middle of it all. You're the beginning, the end of it. You're the one who can make the path go different ways."
"That's your vision? Iowa has less corn.
Jim Butcher
#42. You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack.
Jeff Goodell
#43. I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government - I'd give it all up for one erection.
Groucho Marx
#44. I go home to Iowa. I call it defrosting my heart. Everyone in Iowa is so simple, a genuine. In this business, sometimes you can get cold-hearted. When I go, even if it's 20 below and snowing, I come back with a warm heart.
Riley Smith
#45. One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.
Roseanne Barr
#46. You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
Gertrude Stein
#47. When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities teacher whose name was Carol Parsinan, a wonderful teacher. And Carol did a really great thing for me. She taught me more than anyone.
Edward Hirsch
#48. I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.
Jason Lee
#49. There was always this sense, even early on in the campaign, that if the senator Obama could score this upset victory in Iowa, that there was a pretty good chance that he would end up being president of the United States.
Josh Earnest
#50. We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.
Thomas Vilsack
#51. I think the only real knowledge I had before I went to Iowa was what I learned from 'Food Inc'. But once I got there and developed these extensive relationships with the farmers, I realized that we're basically made of corn.
Zac Efron
#52. My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.
Keri Hilson
#53. It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
Abigail Van Buren
#54. God invented Iowa, he always said, so people could leave it and never come back.
Justin Cronin
#55. I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.
John Dalton
#56. Hillary Clinton is driving across Iowa in a van. It's to get to know the people she'll never, ever see again in her life.
David Letterman
#57. I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.
Steve Alford
#58. There is a reality to the primary process, and you don't win primaries by being ahead in national polls. You win them by winning Iowa, by winning New Hampshire, by winning South Carolina, winning Florida.
Rudy Giuliani
#59. I wasn't always a demon.
My name is Maggie Frew, and I grew up a simple human girl in suburban Iowa. I don't carry a pitchfork, or have a forked tail. I'm not a creature from Hell. I'm a political campaign manager. Though, I guess some people might argue those are the same thing.
Patricia Murphy
#60. What's right for New York or California, is not necessarily right for Iowa.
Joni Ernst
#61. Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean.
Elin Hilderbrand
#62. The USDA labs in Ames, Iowa, are level-four security clearance. Every nasty thing you can imagine is stored there. Ground zero for the apocalypse. And there's a day care right across the street.
Benjamin Percy
#63. He was neither dead nor here, but in Idaho, a state often confused, by bicoastal folks, with Iowa, but that in fact was the anti-Iowa in many respects, a place that Iowans would only go to in order to make some kind of statement.
Neal Stephenson
#64. I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.
Grandfather Wills , Hocus Pocus
Kurt Vonnegut
#65. I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.
Corey Taylor
#66. I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.
Adam Rapp
#67. It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.
Chuck Grassley
#68. Being from Iowa, I can tell you that Vegas is not normal.
Dave Keuning
#69. My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.
Buffalo Bill
#70. Secret Service agents detained an Iowa man with a gun who happened to be walking in a Des Moines park where President Bush was jogging. Were they out of their minds? White guys with guns put Bush in the White House.
Argus Hamilton
#71. You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
Zach Johnson
#72. Newt Gingrich had a horrible week in the Iowa caucuses. Only 13 percent of his ex-wives voted for him.
David Letterman
#73. Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.
Bill Bryson
#74. I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil ... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.
Gail O'Grady
#75. Of all states that understands local control of schools, Iowa is such a state.
George W. Bush
#76. I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.
Chelsea Cain
#77. Jack: For Christ's sake, it wasn't like I was on vacation. I've been in Iowa, in cornfield hell!
Keely: Did you just say you got cornholed in Iowa?
Lorelei James
#78. When you live in a small town like Iowa Falls, there's not a lot to do, so we would, as a family, watch a ton of films.
Patrick Whitesell
#79. Claire believed she was teetering literally on the edge of sanity. A strong wind was all it would take to blow her one way or the other. Iowa had its share of storms, strong winds and tornadoes, they were all unpredictable. It made an ironic parallel for her life.
Aleatha Romig
#81. I once heard a tobacco-chewing hog farmer say that, in Iowa, folks like to spread out their children like dog shit on a dance floor.
Andrew Smith
#82. You know, if they ever gave a Nobel Prize for avoiding work, every year some white guy in Iowa would get a million bucks and a trip to Sweden.
Andrew Smith
#83. He felt like a green-as-grass PFC from Dubuque, Iowa, trading banter with the hardened South Vietnamese regular attached to his unit. "So,
Lev Grossman
#84. She's not Italian in any way you'd notice. No garlic smell or big armpit hair. She came here to attend medical school. Frigging medical school. In Iowa. The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here. The
Chuck Palahniuk
#85. I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
Patrick Whitesell
#86. I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.
Alex Karras
#87. Is it me or is Bush going everywhere Kerry goes? So far in the past week, President Bush has followed John Kerry to Davenport, Iowa; New Mexico; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; and he follows him to Portland, Oregon. The only place he never followed John Kerry was Vietnam.
Jay Leno
#89. And of course, in the case of Barack Obama, had he not won primaries - and particularly the heavily important caucus in Iowa - if the public hadn't shown that they were prepared to vote for a black president, we wouldn't have one today.
Geoffrey Cowan
#90. I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California.
Ashton Kutcher
#91. In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, 'Where is my food?'
Liang Chow
#92. I lived in Iowa for pretty much the rest of my life, but I just moved to St. Louis and opened up a gym and MMA training center.
Robbie Lawler
#93. You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta that suddenly I could be a new person ... What America offers me is romanticism and hope ... Suddenly, I found myself in a country where
Bharati Mukherjee
#94. For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.
Elin Hilderbrand
#95. The new specialty at the Iowa fair this year is fried butter on a stick. Of course, if you're like me and you want like to eat healthy, get your stick of butter baked.
Jay Leno
#96. They could stay in Iowa. Lots of people do that. Millions of them, like four million of them, stay in Iowa, year after year.
Dean Bakopoulos
#97. I write in an old-school paneled study in the middle of a large farmhouse in rural Iowa. I have pine floors, a big cherry desk, and a small window. The room is cluttered with papers and books and gifts from friends.
Dean Bakopoulos
#99. I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'
Bharati Mukherjee
#100. I grew up in Swaledale, in Iowa. Its population was 220 when I was growing up, and it's probably 150 now. I lived in town and sometimes worked on the farms outside of town in the summers.
Tom Drury
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