State Of Kansas Sayings

#1. I am a basketball junkie, and as a product of the great basketball state of Kansas, I have watched many a ball game between the University of Kansas Jayhawks and the Tar Heels.

Sheri L. Dew

#2. What's the total area, in square miles, of the state of Kansas?" he whispered. "Um, around 82,200; why?

John Green

#3. You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him

George Plimpton

#4. Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

Jane D. Hull

#5. Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

Simon Winchester

#6. Without financial literacy, divorce rates soar, families rupture, and women stay with abusive men for financial security. A lack of jobs contributes to riots and illegal activity. Name any situation and it goes back to money. We need to focus on poverty eradication.

John Hope Bryant

#7. There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

Mikhail Tal

#8. President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

Tom Vilsack

#9. If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

Abraham Lincoln

#10. I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state.

Jack Paar

#11. After the Cougars' 19-15 Cotton Bowl victory over Kansas State We're the only team in NCAA history to win 14 games in a season. It was just a great experience and I can't say enough about it ... People don't know how difficult it is to get up for 15 games.

LaVell Edwards

#12. Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

Thomas Carlyle

#13. This is a place where people make and are made. You are what you do. Choose wisely, young Picket. Choose wisely, brave Heather. Understand?

S.D. Smith

#14. Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Yesterday the Supreme Court lifted the ban on same-sex marriage in Kansas. They didn't give a reason for the ruling, but then again when a state is famous for a Judy Garland musical about a rainbow and a wizard who comes out of a closet, do you really need an excuse?

Jimmy Fallon

#16. Donald Trump, I would vote for him. Trump would make this country better I feel.

Nicole Polizzi

#17. Ad astra per aspera. It's the Kansas state motto," he said to Roger and me, "To the stars through adversity

Morgan Matson

#18. Tom Jr. was steeped in Free Soil politics and was now chief justice of the Kansas State Supreme Court.

Robert L. O'Connell

#19. I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.

Harmon Killebrew

#20. I want to see this lady out the front gate and into her car and off the street and out of town and then removed from the county and then the whole state and finally relocated to the place they call Tornado Alley in Kansas.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#21. There are few of us who are secure enough to be within love without proper encouragement - Charlotte Lucas

Jane Austen

#22. Skinny foodie, get away from me.

Mindy Kaling