Top 318 Oklahoma Quotes & Sayings

I will not go to Oklahoma and retire my jersey there.

I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it's simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life. It's a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.

I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on.

Oklahoma's the Bible Belt.

I wonder what would have happened if automation and computers had existed when 'Oklahoma!' was having its out-of-town try-out, and three days before closing in Boston, when it was still called 'Away We Go,' they added a new song called 'Oklahoma!' I don't think that could happen today. It's almost impossible to change musicals on the go now.

As a native of Parsons, Kansas, a small town near the Oklahoma border, I have a deep respect for tribal nations in Oklahoma. But this federal spending in Oklahoma is outrageous. And excessive subsidies have made the state a playground for Lifeline fraud.

I felt I was in a good place with Oklahoma.

As an undergrad, I studied engineering physics at the University of Oklahoma, and all my degrees are from engineering departments. My father wanted me to join him in the oil-field business in Oklahoma, but I wanted to be a scientist.

I love eating at Sonic with my family in Oklahoma. And no, I'm not kidding.

Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.

When people ask me where I'm from I say I'm from Oklahoma.

I think it's awful that the state of Oklahoma a couple of years ago passed this law to give the same tuition to illegals as they do to people who are residents of Oklahoma. I think it's wrong.

I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.

If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it'll change.

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.

My dad owned a propane company in Oklahoma.

I'm from Oklahoma, and Nick's from a small town in Illinois.

If you were raised in Oklahoma, you've got to be a Southern Baptist or something.

I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.

Oklahoma is the cultural center of the universe.

I am undefeated in Oklahoma, and that's the thing; I plan on keeping it that way.

When I first got to Oklahoma, it was really a blessing that coach Sutton was at Oklahoma State. He made me a better coach.

Oklahoma has a respect for our neighbors. That's the Oklahoma standard.

I've lived in Texas now longer than anywhere and then California and then Oklahoma, but yet Oklahoma is what I consider home.

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

Oklahoma has been so great to me.

There was a period of time where the two most wanted guys in the state of Oklahoma were me and Josh Heupel. Me for suggesting that you could throw the ball at Oklahoma and in the Big 12. And Josh Heupel for having the temerity to play quarterback and not be able to run faster than 5 flat.

When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms.

I understand the significance of being one of 18 senators in Oklahoma history.

You write about what you know. It makes everything easier, and also more truthful. In this case, I grew up in Oklahoma, and I grew up in the Cherokee Nation and I'm a member of the Cherokee Tribe. Oddly enough, I know a lot about robots and Oklahoma, and so that's what comes out in my writing.

Twenty years ago the Oklahoma City bombing seared the concept of terrorism on American soil into our national consciousness and proved that we are all vulnerable, even in the heartland. I was in college at Rice University in 1995. All of us remember exactly where we were that day, and we will never forget the 168 people who were killed. Terrorism is evil, yet the incredible response to tragedies like we experienced in Oklahoma 20 years ago serve to highlight the strength, resolve, and resiliency of the American people to the world.

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

I have family in Oklahoma City.

I was born in Oklahoma.

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain.

As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.

I started playing in nightclubs when I was about 14 in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma's always been good to me.

Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.

It bothered me when Kevin Durant left Oklahoma City.

When I was at Oklahoma, I didn't think it could get any bigger than that.

I do think there is a segment of people in Oklahoma that really do love the Flaming Lips and love this other idea of what someone from Oklahoma could be like. I've sort of become the spokesperson for this "other person" who could come from Oklahoma.

I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up.

The Health Care Compact simply gives a state like Oklahoma the option to create a customized system that better meets the needs of Oklahoma families.

Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

I didn't realize Oklahoma had so many fine women.

[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.

Oklahoma, y'all truly made a big impact on me.

Not a single gun was used at the Oklahoma bombing.

I grew up in Oklahoma.

I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you.

As Oklahoma attorney general, it is not my job to formulate or implement Oklahoma's plan, but it is my job to preserve Oklahoma's right to do so - particularly when the Clean Air Act so clearly recognizes that Oklahomans, and not federal bureaucrats, are best situated to determine Oklahoma energy and environmental policies.

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

People don't know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it.

I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.

Leaving Oklahoma for Illinois is not the no-brainer some think it is.