Quotes About South Florida

#1. Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely.

Kendrick Meek

#2. What I like about South Florida is there's a good quality of life here; the cost of living is much lower than Silicon Valley.

Rony Abovitz

#3. Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.

John Grogan

#4. In South Florida, we have industrial cockroaches that have to be equipped with loud warning beepers so you can get out of their way when they back up.

Dave Barry

#5. And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.

Jimmy Johnson

#6. If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.

Wayne Huizenga

#7. To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#8. South Florida's international connections mean there's a different kind of innovation here. We're able to intersect with a lot of brilliant people who are not associated with Silicon Valley.

Rony Abovitz

#9. Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No one knew better than he the history of the plants and animals of South Florida or conveyed it with more humor and enthusiasm.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#10. I love South Florida; this is where I am from, so I don't think there is anything more rewarding than knowing that where you grew up is standing behind you and supporting you.

Bailee Madison

#11. I've been checking with people back in South Florida to see if Hurricane Dennis is going to whack my house, and the consensus of the experts seems to be: No, it will not, unless it does, in which case, yes. So I'm feeling really calm over here in London.

Dave Barry

#12. While I live with my family in South Florida, I enjoy visiting New York and always appreciate seeing so many Univision fans.

Raul De Molina

#13. One thing about living in South Florida is that everywhere you go is violently air-conditioned,

Katie Cotugno

#14. Though there are literally millions of geckos in south Florida, I swear this one follows me to school and seems to be everywhere I am.

Pittacus Lore

#15. Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.

Spencer Bachus

#16. The Mississippi coast is not like south Florida, but it always seems warm enough for sandals and short-sleeved shirts, except for now and then.

Ellen Gilchrist

#17. I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

Vanilla Ice

#18. I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

Karen Russell

#19. Two preppies from the University of South Florida tried to hit on her with cocaine jokes. Sharon

Tim Dorsey

#20. Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

Joe Tex

#21. I'm so proud to represent the people of South Florida. I was so honored when President Obama asked me to serve as chair of the Democratic Party. But there's one job I'm even more proud of, and that's being a mom to my three kids, Rebecca, Jake and Shelby.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#22. My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida.

Karen Russell

#23. I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

Ransom Riggs

#24. The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#25. The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".

Tucker Max

#26. Every child in South Florida can dance. And every child there is amazing.

Abby Lee Miller

#27. If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

F. Lee Bailey

#28. I was born in New York and raised in South Florida, so I'm an East Coast girl.

Cassie Scerbo

#29. In Florida, then, and for farm workers for the most part in the US, there's a real sense of economic segregation. In the South, the structures of economic segregation still existed.

Sanjay Rawal

#30. In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

Larry Gatlin

#31. Jack E. Davis, a University of Florida history professor who studied racial violence in the South, concluded that "a black man had more risk of being lynched in Florida than any other place in the country.

Gilbert King

#32. Why be content with stain class, a Church steeple and religious rituals when God invites you into a loving and intimate relation with Him because His son Jesus Christ paid the full and final price for all your sins.

John Paul Warren

#33. Reading the scriptures through the lenses of the Law you see God as unapproachable, through the lenses of Grace you see the outstretched arms of Jesus saying "come".

John Paul Warren

#34. I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.

Daniel Boulud

#35. The blood of Jesus did not merely "cover" the sins of your wicked heart ... leaving a stain! It completely remove them all wiping them out as if they never existed there in the first place! It's called redemption!

John Paul Warren

#36. By faith we proclaim that we are "justified". By His sinless sacrifice Jesus declares and makes us "righteous" by giving us His very own righteousness!

John Paul Warren

#37. I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.

Diplo

#38. Ritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to "suppress sin". If you are capable of suppressing your sins or managing them, you would have no need for a Redeemer.

John Paul Warren

#39. Muy Peligroso!" Bernie's choices had become as limited as the Taco Bell menu. Reason and blood had left the building, heading south, faster than reprobates to Florida." - Shark Fin Soup 2015

Fred Barnett

#40. 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

#41. The fire of God comes where ever there is a sacrifice.

John Paul Warren

#42. Repentance is not merely turning away from your sin but turning to the Lamb who takes away your sin. "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world". 1 John 1:29

John Paul Warren