Top 189 Arkansas Quotes & Sayings

My family raised bird dogs when I was growing up in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and I'm a gun owner myself.

I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.

In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom.

It's not easy to embarrass the University of Arkansas. The place is basically a truck stop with a quad.

I am focused on the work that the people of Arkansas sent me to do.

I love Arkansas but I think Arkansas has its share of unlit minds.

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

If you love Black people, why are you destroying Haiti? If you love Black people, why did you, [Hillary] Clinton, stop them from the rice that they were producing in Haiti to feed themselves and other Caribbean nations? You put the rice industry out of business; and now rice is coming from Arkansas, chicken coming from Arkansas, when it once was growing right there in Haiti.

Here in Arkansas, we are preparing a generation of learners to meet the needs of businesses by equipping students with workforce training opportunities statewide.

Serving the people of Arkansas' 2nd District is the honor of a lifetime, and I'm grateful for the opportunity I have been given by my fellow Arkansans.

When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.

I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.

Hi, I'm Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, wanting to say "Congratulations, Canada, on preserving your national igloo".

Bill Clinton had to propose to Hillary Rodham several times before she agreed to marry him and move to Arkansas.

You know Bakersfield was full of workers from the south, from Texas and Arkansas, and they brought their gospel and blues with them. And that's the sound I grew with.

In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.

Theres a woman in Arkansas that's such a bad cook, that a swarm of flies got together and repaired her screen door.

You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

Most of my family is from Arkansas on my Mom's side, and my Dad's family is from up north in Chicago.

When I was born, my father was governor of Arkansas.

Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.

Arkansas, the state Bill Clinton loves and that loves him back, is a place with just no pretension at all.

Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia, and, still worse, to any applicant from Arkansas.

When most kids were doing summer camp, I was doing the Arkansas festival circuit, passing out push cards, and shaking hands and tagging along with my dad to every nook and cranny in the state of Arkansas.

How is it that she [Hillary Clinton] ends up in Arkansas with a philandering husband who makes 25 grand a year as governor, and she has to provide the income for the family at the Rose Law Firm, in Arkansas? How does this that happen?

It doesn't get much more Arkansas than being a former Arkansas Razorback football player.

I think most people don't even know what 'woo pig sooie' is if they're not a sports fan or they're not from Arkansas.

We have deep roots in Arkansas, and I'll always be a Razorback.

You know what they say in Arkansas...manure happens.

Arkansas is a very small state, and it's even a smaller field when you break it down to Republicans in this state.

First governor in Arkansas history to ever lower taxes.

Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.

Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

Arkansas is a curious and interesting community ... it is probably the most untouched and unawakened of all American states.

I'm from Hope, Arkansas, you may have heard of it. All I'm asking is, give us one more chance.

I spent summers with my mother's parents in Arkansas, where religion felt very present. My grandmother was Baptist, and my grandfather was Methodist. Double Southern whammy.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

I'm very proud and happy to be serving the people of Arkansas and the Senate, and I look forward to continue to serve them.

When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.

My plan was to release a tape, move to Arkansas, live on a farm, and make music like Bon Iver.

My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.

We`ll go through the legislative process and I`m make it clear what I support, don`t support and what I think is good for Arkansas.

In Indiana, gays and lesbians can be fired from their jobs with impunity, and in Arkansas, it's the same thing. We need those protective laws to truly have an equal society.

Arkansas needs leaders who will stand up to anyone in Washington, from either political party, and do what's right for Arkansas and for our country.

There is a disconnect between Arkansas and Washington, D.C. The career politicians in Washington are not listening to people here in Arkansas, and this is the fundamental problem with politics.

Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas.

I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

We grew up in rural Arkansas without any Koreans close by, and when I go to Korea feel out of place.

I grew up in Arkansas, and I went to Little Rock Central High, which was the site of a desegregation crisis in '57. I graduated in '97.

Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.

Playing for Midland, that helped me get to Arkansas. It was really all I ever wanted to do.

I grew up in rural Arkansas, and I'm afraid that begging is not part of our characteristics.

It's almost impossible to have a constructive conversation about health-care reform in Arkansas without passions rising and folks taking sides.

I want to be the governor of Arkansas. I'm going to be the governor of Arkansas. I might be president, but I will be the governor of Arkansas.

My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas!

My ancestors are Highland Scots, and my father's home in north Alabama is so much like northwest Arkansas. I have the same allergies in both places.

Agriculture has deep roots both in my life and in Arkansas' history.

A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.