Quotes & Sayings About Kansas City Missouri

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and knowing nothing about Picasso, I had the audacity to knock on his door, became his friend, and took thousands of photographs, of him, his studios, his life and his friends. — David Douglas Duncan

Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible. — Chely Wright

The message is that no matter how stuck we feel, we are always moving, and transforming. All difficult moments are transitional times, we are always evolving, and becoming the next version of ourselves. We just need to know that and stick it out. — Cecelia Ahern

The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence. — B.K.S. Iyengar

I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever. — Brandi Chastain

Oh, boy. Why did I have a feeling I'd just aligned myself with Tweedle Diva and Tweedle Devious? — Gemma Halliday

The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish.
[Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.] — Horace

The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer. — Marc Davis

Kansas City, that's like in Kansas, right?" I ask. "Missouri," Frank and Dad both correct. — Julie Cross

I was the original voice of Mattel's Barbie for an '80s claymation workout video. — Jodi Benson

He has the look of a Handsome Boy from a different time. He could be a dashing World War I soldier, handsome enough for a girl to wait years for him to come back from war, so handsome she could wait forever. — Jenny Han

It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth. — Anne Bronte

Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised. — Hayley Atwell

I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don't have to learn."
Vokep shook his head grimly. "It's the kids," he said. "Having babies. Makes 'em propertarians. They won't let go." He sighed. "Touch and go, brother, that's the rule. Don't ever let yourself be owned. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Shon was the man in charge of the biggest drug operation in Kansas City, Missouri. When he was fourteen years old, he was put on by one of the biggest drug dealers KC has ever seen. He went by the name of Big Tone. When Shon came to Tone looking for work, he wasn't feeling it. He didn't like the idea of a fourteen-year-old working for him. But as time went by, Tone gave in; he like that Shon was persistent. Shon would show up every week at the coffee shop downtown that Tone chilled at on Sundays, until Tone put him on. He took Shon under his wing and gave it to him straight, no chaser. Before long, Shon and his boys were moving dumb weight for Tone. Tone took a real liking to Shon; he started to look at him as a son he never had. He knew Shon would go far in his line of work. — Shaniqua Desha

I rent a small brick bungalow within a loop of other small brick bungalows, all of which squat on a massive bluff overlooking the former stockyards of Kansas City. Kansas City, Missouri, not Kansas City, Kansas. There's a difference. — Gillian Flynn

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive. — Frank Herbert

When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently. — Haruki Murakami