Florida Quotes

The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.

I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.

It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners.

I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores

I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.

The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just rubbed us the wrong way."

I like Florida. Everything is in the 80s. The temperatures, the ages and the IQ's.

Tim Tebow's like the snake doctor for Florida. Gotta stop the snake doctor, keep the Gators from moving the ball....this time he snaked Alabama with a play action pass.

If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

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.

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!

I believe Marco Rubio is going to win Florida, I think Ted Cruz is going to win his Alamo in Texas. I think old rules apply. John Kasich's going to win Ohio as well.

Lot Of Strip Clubs in Florida... Good grief... Florida has so many strip clubs, they need to change their state flag to a brass pole.

The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.

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.

Florida's number three industry, behind tourism and skin cancer, is voter fraud.

A big reason I wanted to do a tour was because I'm from Michigan and not many things go to Michigan. Most conventions are in like London or Florida or California, and that's about it.

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

I took my dog for a walk... all the way from New York to Florida... I said to him "There now you're done."

If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.

I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me.

I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible.

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

Florida wants to change the state's motto to attract younger people. They're thinking about: More than just a great place to die.

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

Florida is a very healing place.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.

If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.

I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.

I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.

Florida is not going to vote for a con artist like Donald Trump.

God bless the Florida Supreme Court.

Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely.

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., wheres theres crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.

So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting.

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

We were all worried that nothing good was going to happen for Florida

One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.

The people of Floridas 2nd Congressional District said, Steve, go up there and fight to change the culture in Washington. Ive taken their instructions very seriously.

I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.

In Florida, then, and for farm workers for the most part in the US, there's a real sense of economic segregation. In the South, the structures of economic segregation still existed.

The first presidential debate was down in Florida. Residents spent all day putting plywood on their televisions.

Florida was invented for Addison Mizner's little brother.