“But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.” StatesHelpingLawFightingHeardCrimeCitizensProtectOfficialsFloridaLaw EnforcementEnforcementFundingJurisdictionProtect And Serve Author:Cliff Stearns
“For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this "Celebration" village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first.” FirstsLittlesIdeasDoneArtistInstanceVillageCelebrationFloridaInstituteWalt Author:John Hench
“Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004.” ShouldGivenWaitingHappenedEvidenceElectionMinoritiesVotersFloridaExaggeratingWait For Him Author:John Fund
“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.” KindWholeHouseWhiteLevelsReaderCriticalWhite HouseAggressiveFloridaPresidencyBeneficialReadershipSalons Author:David Talbot
“But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me.” LittlesStillsIdeasSongCitiesFarmsFloridaLittle TimeTennessee Author:Mel Tillis
“Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.” WritingI CanDealsFantasyImagineConnectionsLet MeFloridaAlligators Author:Terry Brooks
“When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.” FeelsHouseLosesTakenPiecesWifeDyingNew YorkSonVery GoodAbandonFloridaFurnitureUnderwearYour SonAmsterdam Author:Al Goldstein
“Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket” YearsInspirationThreeYears AgoPocketsThree YearsFloridaNickels Author:Groucho Marx
“I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.” BigsSportsWaterJust BeingFlorida Author:Jake Owen
“As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks. I used to get mad because nobody else would play Miami. Notre Dame would play them, then drop them. Florida dropped them. Penn State dropped them. We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship. I didn’t want to play them, either, but I had to play them. That’s why I said, 'When I die, They’ll say, ‘At least he played Miami.'” WantSaidStatesPlayUsedDiesWinningGoalLosesFieldsLosingMadKicksChampionshipFloridaMiamiDamesNotre DameNational ChampionshipsPenn State Author:Bobby Bowden
“I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.” SchoolFunnyGrewGrew UpJokesUniversityFlorida Author:Daniel Tosh
“I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.” StatesHomeLandFloridaHome State Author:Piers Anthony
“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.” HomeBigsPerfectRelaxVacationFlorida Author:Hilary Rhoda
“Starting in 1994, with the Republican election of Congress, I think [Rush] Limbaugh made a difference in electing the Republican majority. In the following three elections, he made the difference holding the majority. And in 2000, in the presidential race in Florida, he was the difference between Gore and Bush winning Florida, and thus the Presidency.” ThinkingMadeThreeWinningDifferencesRaceRepublicanElectionMajorityStartingCongressFollowingPresidentialFloridaPresidencyGore Author:Tony Blankley
“The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.” LightSeemsWhiteSunPursueFloridaIlluminationOverhead Book:Rabbit at Rest Source: Rabbit at Rest
“I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.” IfsGirlGrewComfortableGrew UpDancingFlorida Author:Channing Tatum
“Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.” MadeTwoFatherWaitingLaughingLandscapeVainSensationsContinentsFloridaArrivalsMiamiDebutGroveBeckettCoconutsTrampsBowlersGodotWaiting For Godot Author:John Lahr
“On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the eastern coast. Obscured up to Hatteras . . . I can see [lake] Okeechobee. Identify Andros Island. Identify the reefs.” I CanBeautifulThreeViewsFourWalkingMoonCloudsIslandsLakesFloridaCoastEasternStar GazingReefs Author:Alan Shepard
“Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles - and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech - look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.” IfsLooksAgeAmericaMotherGivenWalksOpinionSunSubjectsHairSpeechHumorousAgingFaultsMotherhoodCowsSixtyFloridaUp And DownAvenuesPeasantsIdioticPedalsPlatinumMinkOnly In America Author:Philip Roth
“I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference to the Southern Cross-about the stars, the colors, in the Southern Cross, which thrilled me very much. I must have been around 5 years old. ... Now, it turns out that the Southern Cross itself does have one red star, together with three blue ones.” YearsDoeHas BeensTogetherRememberScienceUsedTurnsThreeFatherStarsColorRedCrossesBlueSouthernFloridaBiographiesThrillSermons Author:William Wilson Morgan
“I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.” YearsStatesAmericaChanceUnitedUnited StatesPlayerCollegeBaseballTennisFloridaUnited States Of AmericaScholarshipTennis PlayerSecond Best Author:Jim Courier
“I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction.” ThinkingImportantMovingConservativeCompassionateFlorida Author:Charlie Crist
“President Obama has a strong record of doing what is best for America and Florida, and he built it by spending more time worrying about what his decisions would mean for the people than for his political fortunes.” PeopleMeanAmericaPoliticalStrongPresidentDecisionWorryRecordsBuiltFortuneSpendingMore TimePresident ObamaFlorida Author:Charlie Crist
“I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.” YearsTwoUsedThreeStartingFloridaThree TimesHighwaysStarting OutTampa Author:Billy Gardell
“I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association.” YearsStatesAssociationFloridaFlorida State Author:Peter Fonda
“I kinda like Florida. It's hot as hell, but we moved to Tallahassee, which is so close to Georgia. It really wasn't Florida the way people think of Florida. It wasn't south Florida. But you could still easily drive to Panama City Beach and get a little bit of Redneck Riviera if you want that. Get some airbrushed T-shirts on, and you're done.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantLittlesStillsDoneBitsCitiesHellLittle BitHotMovedSouthBeachShirtsFloridaT ShirtRedneckGeorgiaPanamaSouth Florida Author:Tony Hale
“We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.” CrisisEnvironmentalDrivenFloridaHurricanesEnvironmental Change Author:Natalie Jeremijenko
“I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It's a weird place, it's surreal. It's so close, but you feel like you're in another world or on an island.” WorldFeelsSometimesLike YouIslandsVacationFloridaSurrealAnother WorldWeird Places Author:Jemima Kirke