Florida Quotes

• Florida was invented for Addison Mizner's little brother.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Littles
  • Florida

• Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

  

  Henry Winkler
  • Play
  • Taught
  • Fishes

• I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • God
  • Looks
  • Said

• I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Enjoyed
  • Florida
  • Police Departments

• Both teams are making mistakes. Florida's making these itsy-bitsy little ones, and Tennessee is making huge, gigantic mistakes.

  

  Gary Danielson
  • Mistakes
  • Little
  • Teams

• Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.

  

  Wes Montgomery
  • Realizing
  • Groups
  • Thousand

• The freshwater fish fauna of Florida is one of the most interesting in the United States. It is a fauna developed in a region of recent geologic origin, low topographic relief, poor drainage, and unusual geographic configuration, and consequently exhibits certain very peculiar features. Some of the characteristic continental groups apparently have not had time to establish themselves in the peninsula since its elevation above the sea, while others have doubtless failed to find suitable conditions in its low and swamp-bordered water courses.

  

  Archie Carr
  • Florida
  • Origin
  • Fauna

• We played with Sonny & Cher, The Mamas & The Papas, The Four Seasons, and we played with The Beach Boys in Florida - we did a tour with them.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Played
  • Tour
  • Florida

• August in Florida is God's way of reminding us who's in charge.

  

  Blaize Clement
  • August
  • Charge
  • God`s way

• Florida feels we owe a great debt to our neighboring states.

  

  Craig Fugate
  • States
  • Debt
  • Neighboring

• Ladies and gentleman of Florida, this is the real Jeff Ament...take a very good look because there's an imposter running around...if someone comes up to you and says he's Jeff Ament and says he wants to take your pot or wants to take you to a strip club, it's probably not him.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Running
  • Wants
  • Strip Club

• The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free!

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • Black
  • Doubt

• Florida's my home, and I've grown up in Florida for so long.

  

  Brooke Hogan
  • Home
  • Florida

• We were all worried that nothing good was going to happen for Florida

  

  Gary Danielson
  • Nothing
  • Happen
  • Worried

• The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she liver with, her only boy.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Mind
  • She
  • Son

• Now, Florida laws do not regulate assault weapons or large capacity ammunition magazines. Doesn't even require a permit to purchase a gun or register it or be licensed. So if we don't have action on the federal level that would have set off the alert, it will be difficult to interrupt the plans of someone like this who clearly, by the time he went and purchased these weapons.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Capacity
  • Assault-weapons
  • Ammunition magazines

• The problem with being on the road - especially in a hot place like Florida - is that you can begin to think you're on holiday. You can partake of the buffet a little bit more than you should, so you have to have a routine.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Holiday

• They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.

  

  Andre Caldwell
  • Football
  • Back
  • Florida

• Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Crazy
  • Shows
  • Florida

• I think that Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, all those states actually look pretty good for Hillary Clinton.

  

  Bill Burton
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Florida

• I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Business
  • Voters
  • Michigan

• I was brought up in Florida, so there isn't much difference between playing there and playing here. The climax are about the same.

  

  Mickey Rivers
  • Differences
  • Florida
  • Climax

• We ought to be bragging about Florida!

  

  Rick Scott
  • Bragging
  • Florida

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