Top Florida Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Florida quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Mickey Rivers
I was brought up in Florida, so there isn't much difference between playing there and playing here. The climax are about the same.
- Mickey Rivers
Collection: Florida
Image of Blaize Clement
August in Florida is God's way of reminding us who's in charge.
- Blaize Clement
Collection: Florida
Image of Tucker Max
The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".
- Tucker Max
Collection: Florida
Image of Tim Dorsey
Back at the Rash [a Florida nightclub], a waif in a lime latex body tube went into the rest room to snort the newest designer drug, XGB5, which gave people the uncanny sensation of throwing money away while chewing their own lips off. It was hard to come by and everyone had to have it.
- Tim Dorsey
Collection: Florida
Image of George Carlin
I like Florida. Everything is in the 80s. The temperatures, the ages and the IQ's.
- George Carlin
Collection: Florida
Image of John Fund
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.
- John Fund
Collection: Florida
Image of Florida Scott-Maxwell
My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell
Collection: Florida
Image of Gary Danielson
We were all worried that nothing good was going to happen for Florida
- Gary Danielson
Collection: Florida
Image of Edna Buchanan
A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.
- Edna Buchanan
Collection: Florida
Image of Gerald Kogan
It doesn't make any difference if you are in favor of capital punishment or if you are opposed to capital punishment. The fact of the matter is that as a viable penalty, capital punishment does not work at this time and has not worked in the State of Florida for many, many years.
- Gerald Kogan
Collection: Florida
Image of Tom Feeney
Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane.
- Tom Feeney
Collection: Florida
Image of Randy Wayne White
The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.
- Randy Wayne White
Collection: Florida
Image of Bill Frist
In the wake of this disaster, the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida should know that the United States Congress stands ready to help them in their time of need,.
- Bill Frist
Collection: Florida
Image of Joe Tex
Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).
- Joe Tex
Collection: Florida
Image of Ted Bell
I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.
- Ted Bell
Collection: Florida
Image of T. J. MacGregor
Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.
- T. J. MacGregor
Collection: Florida
Image of Helen Van Slyke
When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.
- Helen Van Slyke
Collection: Florida
Image of Craig Fugate
Florida feels we owe a great debt to our neighboring states.
- Craig Fugate
Collection: Florida
Image of Anne Hull
Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.
- Anne Hull
Collection: Florida
Image of John Vanderslice
I was living in Gainesville, Florida, and our babysitter brought over the soundtrack to The Who's "Tommy" - not the actual record "Tommy", but the soundtrack to the movie with Elton John and Aretha Franklin. I remember hearing it for the first time and it was so confusing. It was like waves and waves of unknowable and indescribable sound coming out of the stereo.
- John Vanderslice
Collection: Florida
Image of Mary Matalin
[Donald Trump] has to have and he said he is going to have a transition element for those states, like in Florida, he's, you know, Republican governors who have put in some form of it. They has to be a transition through it.
- Mary Matalin
Collection: Florida
Image of David Mandel
I have been able to watch the Clintons and The Clinton Foundation; Al Gore and what he did post-losing the whole Florida thing. There's a grand tradition of a lot of interesting stuff that happens to these post-presidents.
- David Mandel
Collection: Florida
Image of Marco Rubio
I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.
- Marco Rubio
Collection: Florida
Image of John Updike
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.
- John Updike
Collection: Florida
Image of Gary Zukav
There is not one soul on this planet, whether it is a person living in Ethiopia, or in Florida, or in Canada, whose life is not as complex and as rich as your own.
- Gary Zukav
Collection: Florida
Image of Mitt Romney
You can't control Ted Cruz for instance. No one has suggested you could do that and Marco Rubio, everyone tried to stop Marco Rubio from going against a sitting Republican governor in Florida. He did it anyway and won.
- Mitt Romney
Collection: Florida
Image of Daniel Tosh
My excuse for everything is that I grew up in Florida.
- Daniel Tosh
Collection: Florida
Image of Donald Trump
Now, the people of Florida can't stand him [Marci Rubio]. He couldn't get elected dogcatcher.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Florida
Image of Donald Trump
I will be in Melbourne, Florida, and I just heard the crowds are massive that want to be there. I turn on the TV, open the newspapers, and I see stories of chaos, chaos, yet it is the exact opposite.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Florida
Image of Dan Rather
They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.
- Dan Rather
Collection: Florida
Image of Geraldo Rivera
Colorado is a swing state, like Nevada, like North Carolina, like Florida. It all depends. [Donald] Trump has offended Mexicans and Muslims and millennials and some women. Will those offended people be energized to show up in the way that Trump supporters are energized to show up? It will be an energy.
- Geraldo Rivera
Collection: Florida
Image of Betty White
I always tape my Christmas show in advance. That way I can spend the season of joy and goodwill with my only sister in Florida. She’s kinda a creep but she’s got a pool.
- Betty White
Collection: Florida
Image of Donald Trump
Senator Marco 'amnesty' Rubio, while proponents of immigration reform say the Florida Republican was quick to retreat when the going got tough.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Florida
Image of Herschel Walker
One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida.
- Herschel Walker
Collection: Florida
Image of Donald Trump
Marco Rubio doesn't go to the United States Senate. I must say, if I were a United States senator, I would be so honored to be in that magnificent chamber voting for the people of Florida.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Florida
Image of Grace Slick
I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.
- Grace Slick
Collection: Florida
Image of Donald Trump
[Marco]Rubio comes out. He represents for a short period of time the people of Florida. He has got the worst attendance record in the United States Senate, doesn`t vote. He is weak on, very weak on illegal immigration, totally in favor of amnesty.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Florida
Image of Mira Grant
I’m also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, “Do not actually put your hand in the alligator,” while terror says, “Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist.
- Mira Grant
Collection: Florida
Image of Karen Russell
I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.
- Karen Russell
Collection: Florida
Image of Karen Russell
My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida.
- Karen Russell
Collection: Florida
Image of Larry the Cable Guy
I've been down in Florida since 1979. When you're born in Nebraska you really can't explain it.
- Larry the Cable Guy
Collection: Florida
Image of Larry the Cable Guy
I split time between Nebraska and Florida. I'll come to Nebraska in the summertime and stay through Thanksgiving and then I go back to Florida because I have family in both places. One of the reasons I got the place in Nebraska is I've always wanted to live back in Nebraska.
- Larry the Cable Guy
Collection: Florida
Image of Rita Mae Brown
whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
- Rita Mae Brown
Collection: Florida
Image of Jeb Bush
I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida.
- Jeb Bush
Collection: Florida
Image of John Cleese
The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.
- John Cleese
Collection: Florida
Image of Ted Cruz
We talked a lot about Donald's [Trump] record on immigration. There is irony that he has made the center of his entire campaign immigration, given that he faced a $1 million court judgment for being part of a conspiracy to hire illegal aliens, given that news broke that he is hiring foreign workers at his fancy hotel in Florida.
- Ted Cruz
Collection: Florida
Image of Will Cuppy
Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
- Will Cuppy
Collection: Florida
Image of David Cross
Florida was the low point.The entire state, yep. I'm not sure I'd go back.
- David Cross
Collection: Florida
Image of Edwidge Danticat
I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.
- Edwidge Danticat
Collection: Florida
Image of Jamie Dimon
We got a lot of excellent people and businesses from Bear and WaMu. But Bear definitely was more painful. WaMu got us into Florida, California, and other states, which was a huge benefit - to expand and grow and add middle-market, private banking, investment banking, and other products, too.
- Jamie Dimon
Collection: Florida