Top 100 Quotes About Springfield
#1. In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.
Bill Dedman
#2. Latimer Springfield was a rather cheerless, oldish young man, who went into politics somewhat in the spirit in which other people might go into half-mourning.
Saki
#3. "Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock
Chris Hillman
#4. Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
Buffalo Bill
#5. The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.
John George Nicolay
#6. And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church.
Mel Tillis
#7. For years, friends in Springfield, Missouri, have remarked on the physical resemblance between Brad Pitt and his only brother, Doug. But the two share a deeper similarity: their commitment to charitable causes.
Kate Klise
#8. When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.
Brad Pitt
#9. When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live in Springfield. They were like, "Well, that's not how it works. There is an actor who play Homer, and someone who writes what Homer says." So, I was like, "Well, I want to write what Homer says."
Jonah Hill
#10. I've always loved Dusty Springfield and Martha Reeves.
Solange Knowles
#11. But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed.
John Shimkus
#12. I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones ...
Stephen Stills
#13. Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
Newt Gingrich
#14. To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.
Paul Ryan
#15. I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12.
Jenny Lewis
#16. Chris Hillman (of the Byrds) recounts ... 'What happened to the Buffulo Springfield at the Whisky was similar to what happened to us at Ciro's ... everybody wanted to be there. It became the place to be ... a great gig.'
Johnny Rogan
#17. Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That's how we came up with the name
Stephen Stills
#18. I inspect the notebook of CDs laying on the floor. There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian,
Rachel Cohn
#19. The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.
Tom Wolfe
#20. In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.
John Legend
#21. I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.
Mike Scully
#22. We need to focus on issues where we all agree, which is spending discipline and control and making sure that government, both in Springfield and in Washington, doesn't take more from your family budget.
Mark Kirk
#23. I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
Dan Fogelberg
#24. Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away.
Homer
#25. A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.
Jonah Hill
#26. Historian David M. Potter pointed out in 1942 that as president-elect, Lincoln was no more than "simply a lawyer from Springfield, Illinois - a man of great undeveloped capacities and narrowly limited background. He was more fit to become President than to be President.
Harold Holzer
#27. My wife and kids are the constituents I will be serving long after my days in Springfield are a distant memory.
Peter Roskam
#28. Mr. Hoadley disappeared soon after delivering this sermon; but the text, printed in Springfield, is still extant.
H.P. Lovecraft
#29. Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.
John George Nicolay
#30. The restorative touch of our wounded healer, Jesus, highlights our brokenness, letting others know we're distinctly God's. - Scoti Springfield Domeij -
Gary Chapman
#31. I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.
Rick Springfield
#32. THE APPROACH OF Thanksgiving on November 29 sent Springfield into a panic - not over the nation-imperiling crisis plaguing its leading citizen, but the apparently more dismaying prospect of a local turkey shortage.
Harold Holzer
#33. He flopped down beside me on the couch, closer than I would have expected, and when Micah strolled in a minute later and sat down on the other side of me, also close, I felt a twinge of weirdness. Not that I would mind being in a Springfield
Anonymous
#34. What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.
Bill Robinson
#35. They could never beat me in Springfield. I loved that old ballpark. If I could have pitched there all my career, I'd be a 300-game winner.
Tommy Lasorda
#36. My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse.
Jim Messina
#37. You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle." - Springfield Road
Salena Godden
#38. Though famines may come, God sustains us. - Scoti Springfield Domeij -
Gary Chapman
#39. I don't like karaoke very much. I like being around it, but I don't like singing it. If I had to sing a karaoke song, it's usually "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield.
Sara Bareilles
#40. Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.
Will Hermes
#41. Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#42. I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.
Rick Springfield
#43. There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.
Rick Springfield
#46. I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.
Rick Springfield
#49. It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
Rick Springfield
#50. I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.
Rick Springfield
#53. I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.
Rick Springfield
#54. Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.
Dusty Springfield
#55. There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.
Rick Springfield
#56. I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.
Dusty Springfield
#57. I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it.
Rick Springfield
#59. I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.
Rick Springfield
#60. Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans.
Rick Springfield
#61. I just decided I wanted to become someone else ... So I became someone else.
Dusty Springfield
#62. When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love.
Rick Springfield
#65. I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
Rick Springfield
#67. I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
Rick Springfield
#69. Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.
Rick Springfield
#71. I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.
Dusty Springfield
#72. I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.
Rick Springfield
#73. I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.
Rick Springfield
#74. If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
Rick Springfield
#75. The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man.
Dusty Springfield
#81. Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.
Rick Springfield
#82. You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.
Rick Springfield
#83. It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.
Dusty Springfield
#84. My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.
Dusty Springfield
#85. A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.
Dusty Springfield
#88. I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.
Rick Springfield
#89. The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.
Rick Springfield
#90. There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.
Rick Springfield
#91. I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.
Dusty Springfield
#92. You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.
Rick Springfield
#93. Sometimes the ladies involved give too much of themselves, sometimes not enough.
Dusty Springfield
#96. Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness.
Dusty Springfield
#98. I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.
Rick Springfield
#99. My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.
Rick Springfield
#100. I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.
Rick Springfield
