Quotes About Iowa State

#1. Chris Christie said he will top Donald Trump's Iowa State Fair helicopter entrance by riding in on a pony. As a result, all the ponies in Iowa have gone into hiding.

Conan O'Brien

#2. My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

George Stigler

#3. The early 1990s was a time of great advancements in precooked bacon technology. Pork producers, food labs, and agricultural schools such as Iowa State University began investing substantially in precooked R&D.

David Sax

#4. My professional apprenticeship at Iowa State College from 1930 to 1943 could not have been better; the Great Depression made it so, and the talented younger economists at Ames during that period made it an exciting and profitable intellectual experience.

Theodore Schultz

#5. 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

#6. I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. Iowa's the worst. Iowa's just nothing, just flat as far as you can see. It's the only state in the country where you can stand on your front porch and actually watch your dog run away for three days.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#8. We set off walking backwards, thumbs out, trying to hitchhike to the postoperative breast augmentation appointment, perhaps a first in the state of Iowa.

Ann Patchett

#9. Recorded history is wrong. It's wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

Mary Lee Settle

#10. As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter.

Leonard Boswell

#11. Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.

Emily Dickinson

#12. A drunk tongue is an honest one in my opinion.

Adele

#13. At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

Rosa Parks

#14. In the Iowa senate, I helped pass the largest tax cut in state history - returning over four billion dollars in savings and putting more money back in the pockets of hard-working Iowa families.

Joni Ernst

#15. My first district was Northwest Iowa. In 2002, it became North Central Iowa hooking around Des Moines down to the south, clear up to the northeast corner of the state.

Tom Latham

#16. In the search for understanding and awakening we are drawn to those teachings that convey the deepest wisdom with the greatest beauty.

Frances E. Vaughan

#17. Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846.

Leonard Boswell

#18. I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.

Chelsea Cain

#19. Jordan pinched the bridge of his nose. 'The only decent piece of trivia I know is that it's against the law to cross the state boundaries of Iowa with a duck on your head.

Jodi Picoult

#20. I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control.

Nick Swardson

#21. When people have so much for outsiders didn't it indicate a lack of inner intensity?

F Scott Fitzgerald

#22. Of all states that understands local control of schools, Iowa is such a state.

George W. Bush

#23. My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.

Buffalo Bill

#24. It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.

Konosuke Matsushita

#25. Give God the first part of every day. Give God the first day of every week. Give God the first portion of your income. Give God the first consideration in every decision. Give God the first place in your life.

John C. Maxwell

#26. 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

#27. We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.

Thomas Vilsack

#28. A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

Stephen Sondheim

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. What is it about Iowa? I'm the shortest guy in the state.

Jason Alexander

#33. I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

Holland Taylor