Quotes About Tulsa

#1. 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

#2. Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

Anne Hull

#3. Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white-trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a telephone pole on the outskirts of Tulsa 44 years ago, before he somehow transmogrified into the money-sucking animal that he became when he discovered television.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. I'd rather be tipping cows in Tulsa, than hailing cabs here in New York.

Carrie Underwood

#5. Tulsa was the kind of place where you could go to any door and borrow a cup of sugar. Everybody knew everybody. Truthfully, I don't even remember dealing with any racism in our town; we all got along.

Charlie Wilson

#6. In Tulsa, a girl would no sooner have run around with unstraightened hair than she would have run around naked. It would have been worse than running around naked, letting everyone see your naps (40).

Martha Southgate

#7. The Zionist Tulsa Jew who's pugnacious is a reality. I grew up around it. And I think it's really, really funny and surprising and unlikely.

Edward Norton

#8. 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

#9. In Tulsa, it was sports or nothing.

Bill Hader

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

J. C. Watts

#13. People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.

Yakov Smirnoff

#14. I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.

Samantha Isler

#15. I loved growing up in Tulsa.

Bill Hader

#16. The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.

S.E. Hinton

#17. I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

Edward Norton

#18. It used to be that if you got on 'The Tonight Show,' your career was made. Now, if you're on 'The Tonight Show,' maybe 14 more people show up to your gig in Tulsa.

Mike Birbiglia

#19. I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.

Samantha Isler

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

Paul Johnson

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

Rob Lowe

#22. At the last parent visitation night I'd sorta accidentally watched a majorly nightmarish scene between Aphrodite and her parents. Her dad's the mayor of Tulsa. Her mom might be Satan.

P.C. Cast

#23. 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

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

Bobby Heenan

#25. Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.

Alex Kapranos

#26. Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!

Philippe Kahn

#27. To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him.

Mother Teresa

#28. The river of life divides into two branches: being and formulating.

Anais Nin

#29. Hope is delicate suffering.

Amiri Baraka

#30. Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.

Alan Hansen

#31. I know this is a hard blow... But stay on the job, son. Do the next right thing.

S.D. Smith

#32. Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?

Lowkey

#33. You could go outside today and have a glum face, or you could put a smile on your face and go out into the world, even though you don't feel like it - that's selfless giving!

Frederick Lenz

#34. History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

William Graham Sumner

#35. Tears are perhaps 1% water but 99% emotions. They contain hurt, pain, sorrow, disappointment, sadness ... so cry sometimes and let go of the feelings welling in your heart. Crying won't necessarily solve your problems but it will make you feel better.

Rita Zahara