Midwest Quotes

Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it.

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I cant enjoy anything.

Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat.

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.

Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.

Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest.

There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.

I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.

There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.

I was born in the Midwest, where "salad" was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.

Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.

I'm still in the Midwest, but I'm in Columbus, Ohio, so I'm three and a half hours away from everybody. That's one of the reasons we're not as active as we'd like to be - it's an expensive chore for me to go down there just to talk or something.

I've tried and failed a lot. But I've also tried to be really clear about my brand. It is who I am. I'm a mum, I'm a wife, I'm 44 and from the Midwest.

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?

I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!

I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

I always knew I was going to leave the Midwest but didn't really know how the opportunity would present itself. When it happened, I was like, "Yes, okay right now, I'm coming. Goodbye!"

Friends in the Midwest often ask me what it's like to raise a family in Los Angeles. I say it's just like where they are, but warmer and with more traffic. I also tell them people here seem a bit more tolerant of those who are different.