
Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it. —
P. J. O'Rourke

In the Midwest, if you show up to a college town on a weekend, you risk running into a football game. —
Jim Butcher

I'm from the Midwest. —
Craig Kilborn

You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy. —
Joe Lando

This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered. —
Jim McKelvey

Like most people in the Midwest, Embryo doesn't believe in humor, especially when it pertains to sensitive subjects. —
Jennifer Niven

I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods. —
Candy Crowley

No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so literature is beyond my abilities. —
Stella Atrium

After decades away from the Midwest, she'd forgotten that bewildering generosity was a common regional tic. —
J. Ryan Stradal

Welcome to the Midwest, Mom used to say. Where the weather keeps you guessing and you're almost always sure to hate it. —
Jennifer Brown

White Castle has a unique position in the Midwest. It is a cult brand that has developed a strong, loyal following. —
Ron Paul

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there. —
Dave Eggers

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit. —
Tom Brokaw

Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats. —
Judy Woodruff

Midwest Radio would like to extend their sympathies to the families and loved ones of the dead —
Mike McCormack

That, and the untended mental health problems. We have all these insane armed hobos coming from the Midwest, usually Ohio. Fuck Ohio. —
Tim Dorsey

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest. —
Douglas Wilson

Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation. —
Andrew Rannells

I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic. —
Jim Gaffigan

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris. —
Chris Van Allsburg

Headless guys and gals Not loving the Midwest vibe Oh, look - a cheese ghost GEE, —
Rick Riordan

any city or town in the Upper Midwest that's known more for what it used to make than what it makes now. —
Anne Trubek

I never seem to get past - I feel like a stupid guy from the Midwest. —
Alex Graves

When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast. —
Tommy Bolin

I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes. —
Michael Moore

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent. —
Jeremy Piven

Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it. —
Big Sean

I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture. —
Rob Lowe

The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho. —
Harmon Killebrew

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold. —
Ajay Naidu

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother. —
Charley Pride

Damn. It's still the Midwest around here, no matter how many open-minded people you surround yourself with. —
Angela Johnson

Well I grew up in the Midwest, and I think the first film that blew my mind was 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' —
Joseph Kosinski

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression. —
Paul Rust

We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest. —
Jonathan Groff

I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since. —
Mona Simpson

I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was. —
Jim Gaffigan

You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard. —
Dean Norris

Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the Beverly Hillbillies. —
Kent Haruf

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker. —
Lara Flynn Boyle

I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I can't enjoy anything. —
Kyle Kinane

I lived five years in the Midwest, and I loved it. The people were so nice. The people were so open. —
John Irving

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are. —
Jami Attenberg

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on. —
Bill Goldberg

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa. —
Richard Powers

I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong. —
Alan Arkin

There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL. —
Lee Iacocca

Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware. —
Charles Baxter