KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Quotes for topic: County


Share this page on

Showing 11-20 of 74 quotes in the topic County

In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county.

~Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Topics: Admitted Any Best Could County Days Georgia Hands Lived Means Men Other Republic Two Very Vocabulary Were Which Who Younger

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.

~Bailey Chase

Topics: Absolutely Absolutely Nothing California County Enjoy Escape Great Hollywood Like Live Me Nothing Really Wyoming

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.

~Barrett Foa

Topics: Annual Bee Broadway Broadway Show County Day-To-Day Experience Favorite Fun Great Great Show Just Much People Show So Much Fun Spelling Were

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

~Bayard Taylor

Topics: Altogether Arkansas California Came County Dialect First Illinois Life Long Man Missouri Native Northern Ours Over Phrase Plains Short Short Life Soon Southern Texas Too Were

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'

~Becky Lynch

Topics: Along Brother County England Found Go Going Opening Out School Then Thought Try Were Wrestle Wrestling

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

~Berkeley Breathed

Topics: Because Bloom County Environment Lee Mockingbird Rural Set Tidy

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

~Berkeley Breathed

Topics: Bet Bloom Cleaning Could County Draw Established Lady Lose More Nature Next Nose Nuclear Once Over Papers Pay Than Twenty Waste Write Years

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.

~Beverly Lewis

Topics: Amish Close County Cousins Farm Grew Horse Land Lived Mother Near Old Order People Up Very

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


If you look at history we've had since I've been in office, in an environment where we haven't had earmarks, we've still been able to get tens of millions of dollars for McLennan County.

~Bill Flores

Topics: Able Been County Dollars Environment Get Had History Look Millions Millions Of Dollars Office Since Still Tens Tens Of Millions Where You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

~Bill Huizenga

Topics: City Commissioner County Dad Engaged Grew Involved Political Political Process Process Up

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Popular Authors

Julius Caesar George Eliot Victor Hugo Robert Kiyosaki Guy Lafleur Martin Luther Demetri Martin Friedrich Nietzsche

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1990 - Bo Burnham

1567 - Saint Francis De Sales

1798 - Jules Michelet

1843 - William Pepper

1872 - Aubrey Beardsley

1904 - Count Basie

1917 - Leonid Hurwicz

1923 - Shimon Peres

1924 - Jack Buck

1927 - Thomas S. Monson

Birthdays on August 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Future Great Independence Mom Motivational Smile Space War