Top 125 Missouri Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Missouri Quotes from famous people such as Mike Parson, Lucy McBath, Boo Weekley, Jay Nixon, James St. James, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Missouri farm and ranch families are the backbone of th

Missouri farm and ranch families are the backbone of this state.
Mike Parson
The last thing we need in Missouri is more violence and strife in our communities.
Lucy McBath
We hunt in Florida, where I live in Jay. I hunt in Alabama a little bit, on my uncle’s land. I go to Illinois and hunt with some friends up there. I hunt in Mississippi and Missouri.
Boo Weekley
I can’t say enough about the tremendous work the Missouri National Guard has done as part of our military efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries.
Jay Nixon
People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won’t be seeing them again.
James St. James
After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
Barney Ross
In some ways, I’m still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I’m trying to find my way.
Brad Pitt
Investing in our emerging leaders through the Missouri Leadership Academy is important to improving state government.
Mike Parson
National Small Business Week is an opportunity to celebrate our small businesses across the state and recognize the important impact they have on Missouri’s economy.
Mike Parson
I haven’t met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids’ classrooms.
Jay Nixon
When she was running for election in 2006, I went to Missouri to campaign for Senator Claire McCaskill. She impressed the hell out of me and I fell in love with her mother Betty Anne who is a pistol!
David Mixner
We owe it to our students to provide the best, high quality public education in Missouri.
Mike Parson
I try to go home to Missouri every couple of months. I do that because I like my family, of course, but my mom doesn’t know who Carine Roitfeld is. And as much as that horrifies me, it’s a good way to keep your feet on the ground.
Derek Blasberg
No matter where I’ve been or where I go, a piece of Missouri is always with me because this is where I’m from and where I grew up.
Michael Chandler
‘What if this funny-looking youngster from Missouri is talented after all?’ I think it was a nice place to grow up, but I’m glad I don’t live there anymore.
Jeremy Scott
When I was a young man, I worked at the Boys and Girls Club in St. Louis, Missouri, and another boys club called Matthews-Dickey.
Sterling K. Brown
I went to a college prep high school in St. Louis, Missouri. When I graduated from school, I owned this thing called the Headmaster’s Cup, and the Headmaster’s Cup is for the student who exemplifies the spirit of the institution and is recognized by the faculty and administration.
Sterling K. Brown
In order for Missouri to be a strong and healthy state, we must deliver essential services and support the needs of our working families, especially during COVID-19.
Mike Parson
These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.
William Henry Ashley
The people of Missouri’s First District elected a Ferguson-made activist to the House and I have brought the same energy from the frontlines of Ferguson to the halls of Congress.
Cori Bush
Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
Ike Skelton
The people I’m honored to represent in Missouri and all over the country want leaders to address their kitchen table everyday problems.
Dick Gephardt
I’ll be working every day to help elect voting rights champions in Missouri and around the country.
Jason Kander
If we’re going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices.
Roy Blunt
Because of free trade, producers across Missouri can compete at a global level, and – due to the quality and variety of goods our state produces – we have become very successful at exporting.
Mike Parson
I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.
Steve Cropper
Our success marketing goods to consumers outside of our borders has played a big role in allowing Missouri’s agricultural industry to grow and thrive.
Mike Parson
Immigrants have and will continue to have an important role in Missouri and the United States. However, we must work together to help control the amount of illegal activity that passes through this country while giving legal immigrants a chance to succeed in this country.
Mike Parson
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham Lincoln
We are not going to use money from the people of the state of Missouri for what I believe is corporate welfare. We’ve got far too many core priorities of government that have to be invested in.
Eric Greitens
There’s still times I wish I could throw on the black and gold singlet and go out there in the Hearnes Center and wrestle for the Missouri Tigers. I miss that and I miss the stuff about college wrestling.
Michael Chandler
For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicia

For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.
Eric Greitens
A lot of people got a lot of money around Kansas City, Missouri. If we didn’t, KC Trends would be out of business.
Tech N9ne
Brian Owens is a young guy from Ferguson, Missouri, my hometown, who I don’t think emulates me at all, but I really enjoy his particular style. He kind of makes me think of the older school of soul singers like Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye.
Michael McDonald
We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.
Meriwether Lewis
It has come to my attention that Missouri state and local law enforcement agencies may be in need of additional resources due to the unanticipated costs of responding to the unrest in Ferguson.
Roy Blunt
My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri.
Karolyn Grimes
I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.
Jenna Fischer
Missouri is dear to my heart, and by working together, we can protect and build a Missouri that is successful for the next generation.
Mike Parson
Missouri has a rich history and diverse heritage that deserves a proper celebration.
Mike Parson
The allegations against Roy Moore are very serious. In the state of Missouri, they are criminal – these are criminal allegations.
Josh Hawley
When I was 18, graduating high school, I was going to the University of Missouri.
Max Scherzer
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
Dan Simmons
Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings.
Bob Holden
Comics were not something that as a young kid you could say you were into in Manchester, Missouri. Kids did not read comic books back then.
James Gunn
I’m from Bourbon, Missouri, where spirits are high and where the cattle population exceeds the human population.
Taylor Louderman
As a kid growing up St. Louis, Missouri, I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Any time people talked about slavery, it was always something like, ‘If I was a slave, I wouldn’t have been putting up with that. I would have been out in a heartbeat.’ And it’s like, sure, it’s a very easy thing to say.
Sterling K. Brown
From Nelson county we went to Logan county to see some relatives we had there, and after staying until the middle of October, I returned alone to my home in Missouri.
Jesse James
State of Missouri employees work tirelessly each and every day, committed to making the lives of Missourians better.
Mike Parson
The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.
Jesse Jackson
We need an attorney general that’s going to be an advocate for the state of Missouri and is willing to intervene in the regulatory process and go to court to protect Missourians from over-regulation.
Josh Hawley
When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that’s under economic assault and a poor community that’s getting bigger, they’re talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there’s a ‘Ferguson’ near you.
Jesse Jackson
I lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and now my kids are growing up in Los Angeles, so that’s culturally very different.
Sterling K. Brown
Cops should not be separate from the black community or any community. Their salaries are paid for by the communities they police. They should be working for the communities they police. But as we saw in Ferguson, Missouri, they are not always doing that.
W. Kamau Bell
The Kansas City VA is an essential resource for thousands of veterans across Kansas and Missouri, and it should be a place where they can receive medical care and services without fear of discrimination.
Sharice Davids
I’ve been very active in Missouri.
Jim Talent
As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.
Rick Santorum
Christmas trees are a wholesome reminder of holiday memories for many Missouri families.
Mike Parson