Michele Bachmann Quotes

Everything I need to know, I learned in Iowa. I grew up here in Iowa.

I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I'm really glad I grew up there. It's where I learned to look people in the eye, to be straightforward and polite.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.

I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that.

I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's really who I am.

I come from the Midwest, from the suburbs - growing up hanging out at the mall and looking at the corn fields across the street. I kind of was embarrassed by it for a long time. Then I decided, 'Hey, if everyone else can embrace their homeland and where they're from, I can do the same!'

I'll always be a small-town boy from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.

I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.

Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.

you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.

I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie writer. The prairie is in his voice, and it is his moral compass. It is his years spent in Waukegan, Illinois - later rechristened by Ray as 'Green Town' in many books and stories - that forever shaped him.

I grew up in a small Southern town, kind of a counterculture to a small Southern mentality.

Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.

I live my life. And the best place to do that is Chicago.

I'm an upstate New York lifer.

I do know where I'm from, and I'm proud to be an Arkansan and to represent country music.

I grew up in the Midwest. I grew up in South Dakota.

I was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, about 20 miles from Kalamazoo. I lived around there for about seven years. That community is one that I really care about.