Top 133 Kansas Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Kansas Quotes from famous people such as Ryan Leaf, Travis Kelce, Kris Kobach, Hayley Atwell, Tony Gonzalez, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The third game of my career, we played Kansas City and

The third game of my career, we played Kansas City and I played as poorly as I’ve ever played in my life. I completed one of 15 passes and had two interceptions.
Ryan Leaf
It’s always fun being in the community, reaching out to not only the Kansas City faithful, but also people that really don’t know that much about football and seeing the influence it could possibly have on them.
Travis Kelce
Kansas and this country have been rewarding illegal immigration for a long time. Here in this state, that’s going to stop the moment I take office.
Kris Kobach
Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It’s quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You’d be surprised.
Hayley Atwell
I have soaked this league up for everything it’s worth. I’ve had fun. Made some great relationships. I don’t regret anything. Don’t regret being in Kansas City. It’s all been very good to me. So why would I take that approach? There will be no pity party thrown here.
Tony Gonzalez
A lot of what I’ve written that’s made its way onto my records I’ve written in Kansas, which is interesting because I’ve never written about Kansas. But I go have these experiences. and I’ll be back at my parents house, and it’s like I’m in a safe incubator.
Kevin Morby
I didn’t know any poets growing up in Kansas.
Kevin Young
One of my daughters was born in Kansas City. I spent almost 10 years there.
Herm Edwards
I grew up in rural Missouri about two hours north of St. Louis, and if the wind was blowing right on a Saturday night, I could catch All Star Wrestling out of Kansas City, which was run by Bob Geigel, and some of the stars there were Bulldog Bob Brower and Ray Candy.
Kane
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I’m trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
Irving Penn
There is no doubt that the majority of Kansas Citians are happy with their three-terminal airport. I will advocate in Washington for our city to keep its unique airport as long as we want it.
Sam Graves
I went to Paris to learn and absorb some of the amazing ambience I was enamored with growing up in Kansas City. I didn’t go there to start my own collection. But I never could get an internship, so finally, I was left with just doing my own show.
Jeremy Scott
If I were attorney general in Kansas in 1953, I would not have defended a Kansas statute that put in place separate-but-equal facilities.
Eric Holder
Kansas is very religious, very Republican, and very straight-laced. I needed to get away from that.
Colton Haynes
I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.
Jeri Ryan
I love everything about Kansas City.
Billy Butler
I like being… in Kansas City. People are extremely nice, extremely passionate about the Chiefs.
Patrick Mahomes
I would love to be in Kansas.
Paul Reubens
Jamaal Charles is one of the finest running backs that’s ever put on a Kansas City Chiefs uniform.
John Dorsey
Kansas businesses depend on high-skilled workers to be competitive and to contribute to the local economy.
Sharice Davids
In Kansas City, most of the time, if we’d have made it to the playoffs, we would have been happy. But our team wasn’t that good.
Zack Greinke
Playing for the Kansas City Monarchs was like my school, my learning, my world. It was my whole life.
Ernie Banks
There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.
Emanuel Cleaver
With the Chiefs, you can’t live in Kansas City and not like the Chiefs. To go catch a game at Arrowhead is a pretty great experience. I haven’t had the chance to go to games anywhere else, but, from what I’m told, I don’t really need to.
David Cook
The Dead’s best venues were the outdoor concerts. I’ve been to a few, including one outside of Kansas City on the Fourth of July, but my fave was Shoreline Amphitheatre – a beautiful outdoor arena built on a landfill.
Ann Coulter
You can’t just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I’m from.
Lindsey Wixson
I feel so fortunate to have grown up in a town like Kansas City that has such a vibrant theater community.
Katherine McNamara
Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?
Jane D. Hull
In Kansas I have a chess school.
Anatoly Karpov
You want to be drafted high, but to be drafted high into an organization like the Kansas City Chiefs, it’s like a dream to me.
Patrick Mahomes
I love Kansas City. I love the coaching staff, the players.
Alex Smith
It's time we stop illegal immigration in Kansas.

It’s time we stop illegal immigration in Kansas.
Kris Kobach
I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don’t know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.
Steve Buscemi
There are a lot of folks out there that love the convenience of the Kansas City airport. That’s one of the biggest things it’s got going for it.
Sam Graves
Kansas City is one of the most convenient airports in the nation.
Sam Graves
I developed an interest in the history of the Negro leagues to the point where I visited the museum in Kansas City, Mo., twice and made the museum an integral part of my unheralded 2005 coming-of-age baseball novel, ‘Scooter.’
Mick Foley
I will always fight to ensure Kansas families have access to the full range of health care services they need, including reproductive health care.
Sharice Davids
The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we’ve had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.
Bruce Springsteen
When you take over at Kansas, they’ve always won, so you’re expected to win.
Jim Boeheim
Kansas City – it’s simple living. It has everything that I need.
Jack Sock
If you went and did a microscopic investigative report at Kentucky, Kansas, Duke, Carolina, Indiana – what are you talking about? You’re always going to have some stuff come out that will be looked upon as not being good.
Ben Howland
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
When I say that Kansas all rolls as one unit, they all roll as one unit. Like, everyone. They never leave anybody out.
Andrew Wiggins
I would like Kansas be a place that future generations feel comfortable staying here.
Laura Kelly
I’ve been back to the Kansas City area a lot in the past. My sisters went to college in the area. My brother went to college in the area. I’ve got friends there, so there’s some ties to the area.
Ben Zobrist
People in Kansas and across the country are feeling the impacts of coronavirus both on their health and on their economic security. The CARES Act, which I voted for, is one small part of helping get them the relief they need.
Sharice Davids
In Kansas, people are reserved, quiet, taciturn.
Everett McGill
Roy Williams has been a great coach every game since the beginning at Kansas.
Jim Boeheim
I firmly believe I never had too much of an opportunity after I left Cleveland. I was behind Jamaal Charles at Kansas City. I didn’t get too much playing time. I felt when I got in I did well. And then I was in Tampa and never really got to touch the field because of Doug Martin. He’s pretty good.
Peyton Hillis
Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher’s pet, know-it-all type.
Gretchen Rubin
In Kansas, we are uniquely positioned to capitalize on renewable energy, as our region has some of the highest wind production potential in the world, to create good-paying jobs while growing our clean energy economy.
Sharice Davids
Growing up in the Midwest, I was very close to my maternal grandmother, who, as a young widow running a small business in 1920s Kansas City, had known firsthand the old Pendergast regime and its classic combine of politics and organized crime.
Roger Morris
With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
Karolyn Grimes
After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
Vernon L. Smith
‘The Wizard of Oz’ is my favourite. It explains what life on this planet is about. Although Dorothy reaches Oz, she finds she had what she needed to go back to Kansas all along, but the Good Witch tells her that she had to learn it for herself. All of the answers to the meaning of life are there.
RuPaul
I grew up in a lot of different places, mostly in Kansas, I really started thinking seriously about acting in high school; I just did it better than most of the other activities in school.
Paul Rudd
In Congress, I represent South Central Kansas, home to McConnell Air Force Base.
Mike Pompeo
I’m just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City, Kansas. And I always thought that acting was art, writing was art, music was art, painting was art, and I’ve tried to keep that cultural vibe to my life.
Dennis Hopper
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
John Updike
I never do a whole new set of new material. I do one new joke at a time, and I wedge it in between two good jokes. Or if it’s a long story, I don’t do it in L.A. or New York; I do it in Kansas and Omaha, all these places I’m going this weekend.
Jim Jefferies
When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system – the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.
Claire McCaskill