Top 154 Nebraska Quotes & Sayings

I've been down in Florida since 1979. When you're born in Nebraska you really can't explain it.

I come from the University of Nebraska where volleyball is very well-known.

I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.

My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season.

Nebraska is proof that hell is full and the dead are walking the earth.

The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.

My folks were farm people from Nebraska, so I like home cooking.

What was important to me was that I represented Nebraska.

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

I'm an honest, hardworking conservative leader who will stand up to Washington and fight for Nebraska.

One thing which Stephen A. Douglas was temperamentally incapable of doing was admitting he was wrong. He always believed that 'popular sovereignty' - the core doctrine of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill - was the right solution to the slavery controversy; and even though it had failed to solve much of anything in Kansas and Nebraska, he stubbornly insisted that this was because it had never been adequately tested.

I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.

It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots.

From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.

I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.

Nebraska and Indiana were really the only Division One schools that expressed any interest in me.

Western Nebraska is the only place in all my travels where I have seen the dust blowing and the rain falling at the same time.

Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.

I got all sorts of great Nebraska jokes.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

For a Nebraska kid in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Nebraska football was a quasi-religion, so I ran out to get The Omaha World-Herald every morning, salivating for the sports page. My dad, however, required that I read one front page story and one editorial before I was allowed to turn to the sports.

There's nothing better than a Nebraska summer so I wanted to live there in the summer time and visit my family and go to as many Nebraska games as I could.

I have a simple rule: when I'm on TV, I'm not talking to just my anchor or my colleague on my right. I'm talking to America. I look into the lens, and in my head, I'm talking to somebody in Nebraska. Why Nebraska? Why the Cornhusker State? I have no idea. But it feels like it's a good place to talk to people.

Nobody's that naive," she muttered. "Nobody's that guileless." "He's from Nebraska." Peabody scanned her pocket unit. "From where?" "Nebraska." Peabody waived a hand, vaguely west.... "They still grow them pretty guileless in Nebraska. I think it's all that soy and corn.

My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.

I'd rather live in Nebraska than Washington.

Taylor Martinez is to Nebraska what iPad is to Apple.

One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

I was born in Japan, and then we went to Korea, and I was raised in Nebraska.

Like my father I, too, was born in Central America - Nebraska.

My father died when I was 15, and my dad was a professional wrestler but as well as a national amateur champion at the University of Nebraska.

My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

Nebraska sets the standard for how fans should act.

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.

I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.

It's tough coming out of Nebraska, where you're the man and you have to score, to going to the guy that sets the team up and being a role player.

Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska.

One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.

My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

I was just a young kid out of Mexico, Missouri, and then Kansas City, having an opportunity to play at the University of Nebraska, where I grew as a man.

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Nebraska Republicans believe that Nebraska Democrats love their kids, and I believe we can have a constructive conversation with everybody.

The American work ethic is, thankfully, still deeply engraved in rural Nebraska souls. This is who we are, and we here in Nebraska have far more to teach Washington, D.C. than Washington, D.C. has to teach us.

I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

Nebraska people have the heart and power to create real beauty and art if they will only wake up and do it.

One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.

My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

It is important that voters be as informed as possible when they enter the polls May 9 to determine who has the experience, integrity and vision to lead Nebraska to excellence.

Im afraid Wisconsin is you, Nebraska, only with much better parties and more wins.

To think I was this little, tiny girl from Hooper, Nebraska, who had a dream.

We finally got Nebraska where we want them...off the schedule.

I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.

I split time between Nebraska and Florida. I'll come to Nebraska in the summertime and stay through Thanksgiving and then I go back to Florida because I have family in both places. One of the reasons I got the place in Nebraska is I've always wanted to live back in Nebraska.

I'll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.

When I was a kid down there it was always a dream to go to a Nebraska game but when you live in those small towns you hardly ever get up to one.

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

My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad all the time.