List Of People From Missouri
The following are people who were either born/raised or have lived for a significant period of time in Missouri. Please see the Discussion page for criteria for inclusion before adding any names.
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Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, people and/or missouri:
“Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.”
—Janet Frame (b. 1924)
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
“In some ways, you know, people that don’t exist, are much nicer than people that do.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“The traveller on the prarie is naturally a hunter, on the head waters of the Missouri and Columbia a trapper, and at the Falls of St. Mary a fisherman.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)