Top 50 Quotes About Omaha
#1. My favorite Starbucks is nice - Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and the baristas are especially lovely at mine - but it's still a Starbucks.
Rainbow Rowell
#2. Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.
Conor Oberst
#3. Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.
Willa Cather
#4. I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice.
You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.
Warren Buffett
#5. Omaha, Nebraska. Sac City, Iowa. Alexandria, Indiana. Darwin, Minnesota. Hollywood, California. Alliance, Nebraska.
John Green
#6. I have to go back home for a while." "Ohio?" "Omaha." "Right. Omaha. Why?
Matthew Norman
#7. I was a young man working in Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1960s when I received a call, and I was summoned to Atlanta to work at WSB. It was, for me, the beginning of a real education about the South.
Tom Brokaw
#8. I actually do quite well in Omaha. It's one of my better games. I love pot-limit Omaha and Omaha high-low. I do quite well in them. If I play in a casino, I usually play some kind of mixed game with Omaha and hold 'em.
Chris Moneymaker
#9. Going to Omaha for the College World Series - the people there are tremendous - huge crowds and a lot of excitement. I still remember those days - you make a lot of friends that you never forget when you win a championship like that.
Roger Clemens
#10. She had so painfully reared three sons to be Christian gentlemen that one of them had become an Omaha bartender, one a professor of Greek, and one, Cyrus N. Bogart, a boy of fourteen who was still at home, the most brazen member of the toughest gang in Boytown.
Sinclair Lewis
#12. Yeah," he says. "We've been friends since kindergarten. Funniest guy I know," Matt says with a chuckle. "He's a great guitar player, too. He's in a band with some guys from Omaha South. He keeps trying to get me to join."
"What do you play?" I ask.
"Baseball," Matt jokes.
Cat Patrick
#13. I'm comfortable with the hold 'em, Omaha and stud high-low. But the other two games aren't my strongest games. I'm not comfortable at all with razz or stud.
Chris Moneymaker
#14. In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?
Alexander Payne
#15. Were there atheists in foxholes during World War II? Of course, as can be verified by my dogtags . . . A veteran of Omaha Beach in 1944, I insisted upon including 'None' instead of P, C, or J as my religious affiliation.
Warren Allen Smith
#16. During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.
Stephen Ambrose
#17. You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that.
To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005
George W. Bush
#18. It is a central characteristic of the American political system that a wheelbarrow fetishist could be mayor of Omaha.
Charles L. Mee Jr.
#19. So there we were around four thirty that afternoon, driving past the Omaha Country Club into the bedroom community of Raven Oaks.
James Patterson
#20. I really enjoyed hearing the likesand dislikesof my readers at book clubs as well as meeting new fans at the book signing at The Bookworm in Omaha " he said. "The book clubs have overwhelmingly asked me to hurry up on writing the sequel.
J. Alexander Greenwood
#21. I was pulled out of Omaha when I was younger because my father started to work, when he was done serving as county commissioner, at Archer Daniels Midland.
Howard Warren Buffett
#22. My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.
Lawrence R. Klein
#23. In 1962, I had an entry-level reporter's job at an Omaha television station. I had bargained to get a salary of $100 dollars a week because I didn't feel I could tell Meredith's doctor father I was making less.
Tom Brokaw
#24. I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.
Lawrence R. Klein
#25. Omaha is a game that was invented by a sadist and is played by masochists.
Shane Smith
#26. Omaha is a little like Newark, without Newark's glamour.
Joan Rivers
#27. I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages ... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
Adam DeVine
#28. Mishmar. Your father's hellish prison he cobbled together from the remains of office buildings from Omaha, which he destroyed. The Mishmar that's stuffed to the brink with mutated vampires. That Mishmar." "Yes." "You
Ilona Andrews
#30. I've no idea what I shall do when I am grown! I don't suppose there is much call for Knights or Bishops or Heroines in Omaha or even Chicago. And I'm sure other girls are much better at it than I.
Catherynne M Valente
#31. The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
Buffalo Bill
#34. At Field Elementary School in Omaha, I'd been the only one in my class to flunk kindergarten; I don't remember why,
Marlon Brando
#35. I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
Adam DeVine
#36. When I was seven, these kids in the alley behind our house in Omaha called me Freckleface Strawberry. I hated my freckles, and I hated that name. I thought it was humiliating in the way that only a seven-year-old could hate it.
Julianne Moore
#37. Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.
Peter Fonda
#38. I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died ... every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.
Omar N. Bradley
#40. Seth, it's seven o'clock. Nine in Omaha. Or maybe 1998 in Omaha.
Rainbow Rowell
#41. If I'm lucky, in a month from now, best-case scenario, I'm managing a Cinnabon in Omaha,
Saul
#42. Alas, all that sound and fury disguised the fact that on Omaha Beach at least, the bombs fell too long, the rockets fell too short, and the naval gunfire was too brief.
Craig L. Symonds
#43. I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
Sam Barry
#44. As long as they were talking, it was easy. And Levi was always talking.
He told her about 4-H.
"What do the H's stand for?"
"Head, heart, hands, health. They don't have 4-H in South Omaha?"
"They do, but it stands for hard, hip-hop, and Homey-don't-play-that.
Rainbow Rowell
#45. Edmonton is Canada's answer to Omaha. Solid, unassuming, and surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. It's a place that makes you think of sensible shoes.
Kathy Reichs
#46. Is it weird being in Omaha?" Simini asked her. "Now that everybody's left?" "It's like walking through the mall after it closes," Mags said.
Stephanie Perkins
#47. To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.
Fatos Nano
#48. Parker Haas, crying Omaha, and his sleepless Rose.
Charlie Huston
#49. Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.
Tony Bennett
#50. How could the human heart hold within its chambers at the same moment such grand measures of nobility and baseness? He wrote in his notebook: Indians at Omaha station: I am ashamed for this thing we call civilization.
Nancy Horan
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