Top 313 Florida Quotes

The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
Ted Deutch
We’ve had hurricanes in Florida forever. And the question is, ‘What do we do about the fact that we have built expensive structures, real estate and population centers, near those vulnerable areas?’
Marco Rubio
When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.
Chris Bohjalian
My dad was a roofer when I was young. I believe he owned his own roofing company in Florida. And then he fell through a roof, broke his back. Permanently. I mean, he’s not paralyzed or anything, but he’s had to deal with pain for all of his life since then.
Channing Tatum
I was getting loads of tweets from people saying that Shawn Michaels had talked about me on Chris Jericho’s podcast and then I got to meet Shawn Michaels when I was over in Florida.
Pete Dunne
I probably made a mistake at Florida trying to change schematically from what they had done before. As a result, we ended up not being very good at anything.
Will Muschamp
By raising the minimum wage in California, 700,000 people are going to lose their jobs. There are a lot of opportunities for companies to prosper in Florida and compete here, and that’s what I’m going after.
Rick Scott
I had the little Radio Shack crystal radio, and then my aunt Judy bought me a shortwave radio. It was amazing to me: like on these really clear nights – I lived in Ohio – I could get Texas or Florida. You felt like the world was a smaller place.
Anthony Doerr
I grew up in Orlando, Florida, and I joined the debate team right around the time of the 2000 election.
Kristen Soltis Anderson
I am a Florida guy. I don’t do cold.
J. R. Ramirez
‘Leverage’ is meant to be based in Boston. But in one episode we’re in New York, then another in Chicago, Florida, and Eastern Europe.
Dean Devlin
I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. ‘Ice Ice Baby’ is about that area.
Vanilla Ice
I want to compete with the best – Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas. Because I know that not only can we compete, I know that we can win.
Tate Reeves
I spoke at, I think, four of the Trump rallies that were in Florida, and these were not highly coordinated events. I would often learn of the program of one of these events just a day or so before the event itself. That seems to evidence the point that these were not people off colluding with Russia.
Matt Gaetz
While I’m critical to the Bush presidency, it’s been enormously beneficial for Salon because we’re seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.
David Talbot
Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.
Spencer Bachus
I didn’t run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.
Sidney Poitier
My story, is how a kid that’s born into really destitute poverty on a little dirt road in Florida winds up in one of the largest bands in history.
Don Felder
Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy

Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
Ted Deutch
Since traveling is such a big part of my life when I am working, I like to vacation relatively close to home. Florida is a great place for me to go and relax. It’s so close, which is perfect because it’s the minimal travel time.
Hilary Rhoda
Before being a mom, I remember going on a Twitter rant during the whole George Zimmerman trial in Florida about my younger brothers and how one day I’ll be the mom of a black son.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don’t even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.
Nancy Pickard
For more than fifty years, Americans and Cubans have been isolated from one another even though Cuba is only 90 miles away from Florida.
Ben Rhodes
If we don’t act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida’s east coast beaches.
Ric Keller
I quit wrestling in 2006 because I just got lost. My mom didn’t want me wrestling. I was wondering if I was going to make it in wrestling; I got injured in a match. I was 19. I was away from home, living in Florida, and I just got lost. I couldn’t face it, so I stepped away.
Becky Lynch
The Florida Gator head is long and funny looking. It scrapes my nose. Every time I put that thing on I get scraped and blood comes down my face.
Lee Corso
If we can think of a place, the physicality of a place, as a kind of ‘material,’ I would say the landscape of Florida in particular was especially important while writing ‘Isle.’
Laura van den Berg
In the state of Florida, we’ve got a lot of issues. In fact, we’ve got 99 issues, and ‘Hamilton’ ain’t one of them.
Andrew Gillum
When I left my parents’ home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn’t have what I needed there.
Darrell Hammond
I put out this record on Ninja Tune called ‘Florida’ when I was about 22. And at the same time, I was DJ’ing and beginning to mix stuff up and promote shows in Philadelphia and New York and my own parties and make mixtapes, put out bootleg white labels.
Diplo
Pensacola isn’t Florida, really. It’s the Panhandle. It’s right up there near Alabama and Louisiana. It’s, like, a stroll away from New Orleans. I feel like New Orleans is home.
Katy Mixon
The acquisition of Silverback 7 will expand our ability to support vital national security programs, and there’s not a better business-friendly environment to do that than right here in Central Florida.
Todd Wilcox
The Florida sound would probably be best defined as heavy bass with high energy dance records. There’s a strong Caribbean heritage in Florida which features a lot of uptempo music, and the music accents the sexy, body-oriented sound.
Flo Rida
Donald Trump won, or he got the majority of the electoral votes, a large majority. I think it would be patronizing to say that the majorities of people in Florida and Ohio, smaller majorities in Wisconsin and Michigan, that they voted for him because they were misled by something on Facebook.
Brad Stone
I’ve always been drawn back to the South, whether it’s Southern California or in Florida, where I grew up, and I wanted to write a song about that.
Don Felder
I grew up in Tampa, Florida, and St. Pete, Tampa, the Tampa Bay area, and that was the home of Championship Wrestling from Florida with Gordon Solie, Dusty Rhodes, and it was just… I mean, for storylines and angles and promos, it was second to none.
Sean Waltman
Joe Scarborough was one of 74 Republicans elected to the Congress in 1994 in response to the missteps of the early Clinton era. He was the first Republican elected to Congress from his northern Florida district since the 1870s and handily won re-election three times.
Christopher Buckley
I love being tall. I see guys who don’t handle it so well, like that Dwayne Schintzius of Florida. I don’t want to sound ignorant or anything, but that guy’s got a problem.
Shawn Bradley
I think we have enough Washington in Washington, and I think maybe we need a little more Florida, and this recipe that’s worked for Florida, in Washington.
Carlos Lopez-Cantera
I was born in Massachusetts. I live in Stillwater. I went to school in Florida.
Peter Uihlein
I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table.
Troy Gentile
They did is sent me down Clearwater, Florida, and they said to me, Jessica, I need you to make Jim Bakker feel better.
Jessica Hahn
I was born in Osaka. I came to New York when I was three. I moved from New York to Florida when I was, like, eight or nine, and then I have been training in Florida since.
Naomi Osaka
They’ve made it a felon to drive from Florida to Louisiana with any fighting birds, so I’ve had to get rid of most of my chickens. I only got about a hundred left now, which I just keep for colour and breeding. I love those birds as much as anything.
Roy Jones Jr.
My job is to make sure that if you’re a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That’s my job and that’s what I think about every day.
Rick Scott
I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor’s, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I’ve spent a lot of time in the classroom.
Andre Holland
I went to a Catholic girls’ school before we moved to Florida when I was 15.
Paula Pell
Coming into Alabama from Florida, they all accepted me, they all loved me and all supported me.
Derrick Henry
When I first left Florida for Boston, I was so eager to shed my Floridian identity, perhaps some of my earlier surreal gestures felt hollow and unconvincing because they were not rising from the particular brand of the uncanny I knew best.
Laura van den Berg
I had started law school at Florida State University as

I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and they allowed me to drop out to play baseball, and then I’d get readmitted in September. I was convinced I was going to be a lawyer and was using my baseball salary to pay my way through school.
Tony La Russa