Quotes About Oklahoma

#1. I've been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown's finally got the Thunder, which is really exciting, but I've still got to stick with the Lakers.

Matt Kemp

#2. (Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

Doc Rivers

#3. Oklahoma has a respect for our neighbors. That's the Oklahoma standard.

Markwayne Mullin

#4. I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.

Reba McEntire

#5. I like the phrase "shot heard 'round the world," and I don't think there's any doubt the Oklahoma City blast was heard around the world.

Timothy McVeigh

#6. When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush.

Elizabeth Warren

#7. Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.

Reba McEntire

#8. A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most.

Raj Patel

#9. She thought about her cousins in Oklahoma, which was odd, since she'd never spent much time with them. She didn't even know them very well. Now she was sorry about that.

Rick Riordan

#10. You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

Wanda Jackson

#11. This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives.

Lizz Winstead

#12. University of Oklahoma. He spent his summers on a farm in Pennsylvania, not far from Roseto - although that, of course, didn't mean much, since Roseto

Malcolm Gladwell

#13. Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to speak, the way I was able to do.

Suzy Amis

#14. With the Gap Band coming from Oklahoma, other artists would tease us by calling us cowboys. We didn't grow up on a ranch, but we took that style to the stage. We knew that it was corny, but at least it was ours.

Charlie Wilson

#15. Lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened to us?

Tom Coburn

#16. In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.

Brad Pitt

#17. The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.

Yakov Smirnoff

#18. Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago, and we'd sit around at night while waiting for a shot.

Bill Paxton

#19. As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

Famke Janssen

#20. 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

#21. Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.

Ally Carter

#22. I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

Tim Blake Nelson

#23. In fifth grade, I did 'Oklahoma!,' but I didn't get a leading role. I knew the whole play and could sing it already, but they were like, 'The sixth-grader has to get the lead.' I was really discouraged.

Ansel Elgort

#24. I don't want to be callous about it, but we all seemed to get over the Oklahoma bombing pretty quickly, and we're never going to get over 9/11.

Daniel Woodrell

#25. The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change.

Ree Drummond

#26. Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

Edna Ferber

#27. Oklahoma is the Bad Food Capital of the World, and Oklahoma City is as cheery as an opened casket. No one reads in that city, and bookstores are even rarer there than atheists.

Richard S. Wheeler

#28. The most important thing in this life, Master Oklahoma used to say at the end of each session, is to have a destiny.

Valeria Luiselli

#29. I'm more focused on the positives of why I'm here. I'll be able to address those things in due time. Right now it's about the Thunder and Oklahoma City.

Derek Fisher

#30. It's true that my mom loved it when I played Joanie Cunningham in the musical 'Happy Days,' but I think she finally realized I am never going to do 'Oklahoma!'

Christine Lakin

#31. I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.

Reba McEntire

#32. I understand the significance of being one of 18 senators in Oklahoma history.

James Lankford

#33. Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

Brad Pitt

#34. Not a single gun was used at the Oklahoma bombing.

Mark Levin

#35. Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother, 'I want to be an artist' - is a good thing.

Jeffrey Deitch

#36. In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

J. C. Watts

#37. My dad owned a propane company in Oklahoma.

Johnny Bench

#38. Oklahoma holds ancient power within its red dirt,

P.C. Cast

#39. When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

Brad Pitt

#40. You've got to quit judging people just because they have an 'R' or a 'D' in front of their name. We don't do that in Oklahoma.

Markwayne Mullin

#41. Actually saying OMG out loud should only happen if you're being ironic or asking your phone for directions to the Oklahoma Meerkat Gardens.

Caprice Crane

#42. Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.

Bobby Heenan

#43. If someone asks me to go to speak at, say, Princeton, I might or might not go. But if someone asks me from Norman, Oklahoma, I certainly will go.

Simon Schama

#44. I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.

J. C. Watts

#45. My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

Jennifer Garner

#46. It's a road movie [Valentine]. I mean, yes. We film it here and it takes place from basically Colorado to Louisiana. That's the road trip. So we're all over the place. We go through bits of Texas and bits of Oklahoma.

Todd Farmer

#47. I have great respect for Oklahoma's tribal members, and I celebrate their traditions and culture.

Mary Fallin

#48. I understand what they felt in Oklahoma City. I have no sympathy for them.

Timothy McVeigh

#49. I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

Blake Shelton

#50. The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.

Mick Cornett

#51. I play golf with my shirttail out. I own a golf course because it's very, very close to my house, and I don't want to drive 45 minutes to the north side of Oklahoma City to play golf every day. I have race horses 'cause I love horses and it's my hobby.

Toby Keith

#52. I had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes.

Chris Paul

#53. Sometimes I think the city is naturally conducive to coincidences in the same way that Plains states like Nebraska and Oklahoma are conducive to twisters, in the same way that mountain lakes are conducive to lightning.

Robert Sullivan

#54. I did not walk every step of the Trail of Tears at one time. Instead, over the last 20 years, I have walked various segments of it in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.

Joseph Bruchac

#55. I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

Ronnie Dunn

#56. I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.

James Garner

#57. When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.

Darrell Royal

#58. At Tulsa, Oklahoma, on 30 May 1921, fifty whites and two hundred blacks were murdered.

Paul Johnson

#59. The Health Care Compact simply gives a state like Oklahoma the option to create a customized system that better meets the needs of Oklahoma families.

James Lankford

#60. The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Rob Lowe

#61. My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there.

Trey Parker

#62. Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

Annette Bening

#63. To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.

John Steinbeck

#64. I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.

Adam McKay

#65. I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.

Tim Blake Nelson

#66. The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Billy Graham

#67. Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output.

John Hoeven

#68. My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Bill Hader

#69. I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for.

Chris Harrison

#70. Oklahoma's my home. I love it there. I miss it.

Ryan Merriman

#71. Liberals pretend to believe that when two random hoodlums kill a gay man in Oklahoma, it's evidence of a national trend, but when a million people buy a book, it proves absolutely nothing about the book-buying public.

Ann Coulter

#72. How many of you were born in Oklahoma? Yeah, never raise your hand to a question like that again. We're the mecca of beer-drinkin' rednecks.

Bryant A. Loney

#73. I love eating at Sonic with my family in Oklahoma. And no, I'm not kidding.

Kristin Chenoweth

#74. Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.

Blake Shelton

#75. People don't know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it.

Barry Switzer

#76. Coaching at Texas and playing at the University of Oklahoma, I had the opportunity to see a lot of guys in Texas - Texas lettermen - who I played against.

Darrell Royal

#77. Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

J. C. Watts

#78. As rowdy as the place was, I've seen rowdier times playing fraternity parties in Oklahoma.

Levon Helm

#79. I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.

Brad Pitt

#80. I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s.

Garth Brooks

#81. Whether you wish to admit it or not, when you approve, morally, of the bombing of foreign targets by the U.S. military, you are approving of acts morally equivalent to the bombing in Oklahoma City.

Timothy McVeigh

#82. I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.

Christian Kane

#83. I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

Patti Page

#84. I'm the only one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that has Final Draft on my computer. Then you show up and go to any coffee shop in L.A., and there are a hundred people your age with Final Draft.

Bill Hader

#85. Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

Brad Henry

#86. A state rep in Oklahoma gave a horrific speech where she felt the homosexual agenda was a greater threat to America than terrorism. People like this - there's not hate in their hearts. They believe what they believe because of the book that they prescribe to. You can't argue with these people.

Leslie Jordan

#87. The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast ... The percentages of broken families and unwed mothers remained higher in places like Arkansas and Oklahoma than in New York and Massachusetts.

Joe Conason

#88. I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

Kelli O'Hara

#89. Oklahoma's always been good to me.

Alan Jackson

#90. I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.

Buzz Osborne

#91. We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'

Mick Cornett

#92. For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977.

Anita Hill

#93. I love Oklahoma. The fans have been with me every night. What more can you ask for?

Kevin Durant

#94. I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.

Rick Perry

#95. Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.

Scott Westerfeld

#96. While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did.

Eric Holder

#97. Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

Brad Henry

#98. We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing up. I watched movie musicals, and I believed in an idealistic, idyllic version of Broadway.

Kelli O'Hara

#99. Oklahoma
Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain.

Oscar Hammerstein II

#100. Any questions I had about whether a redneck from Oklahoma could become a Brown Classical Philosophy professor ended when I met Tim [Blake Nelson].

Edward Norton