Midwest Region Quotes

I have a soft spot for Iowa.

During the mid-1990s, I collected thousands of hackberry fruits from trees all across the Midwest. I chemically analyzed each seed in order to formulate an equation relating the hackberry's mineral makeup to the summer temperature under which it grew.

We will never recreate 'Iowa.'

I first came across Chadron, Nebraska, by accident in 1994.

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.

I grew up in Illinois.

The people that we met when we lived in Cincinnati, the Midwestern values - I'm from Oklahoma, my wife's from Green Bay - we felt at home in the year we were here.

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

One cannot rule out a blizzard in Minnesota after Labor Day, and so when I travel for Thanksgiving or any time in the fall, I am careful to fly into Des Moines instead of Minneapolis and then drive the 200 miles north to my hometown.

Chicago is my biggest base for U.S. readership. If I ask my readers where should I come, Chicago always has the most votes.

I'm a Midwestern girl; I was born in Toledo, Ohio, and grew up in Dayton until I was ten years old. Then my whole life changed.

St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is.

His middle name's Pax. When he's older, if he wants to go by Paxton, Pax, Tiger, he has that choice. So, he has no choice not to be average with a name like that. It could go horribly wrong - he could be a DJ in the Midwest with the name Tiger - we'll see.

There are good people here in the Midwest. That's for sure.

Wrestling in the Midwest is always such a blast, and a favorite place of mine.

I'd rather live in Nebraska than Washington.

In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources. If we do not, it would do immense harm to the manufacturing industry in the Midwest.

I obviously spent a lot of time in New York City, and I loved it, but Chicago has a very different history than New York City does.

Atlanta is definitely where it's at. I still go back to Chicago a lot though, I got family there.

I'm a Midwesterner.

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.

I come from the heart of America.