State of Oklahoma

Famous quotes containing the words state of, state and/or oklahoma:

    “Marriage is the highest state of friendship: If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.”
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    “In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    “I know only one person who ever crossed the ocean without feeling it, either spiritually or physically.... he went from Oklahoma to France and back again ... without ever getting off dry land. He remembers several places I remember too, and several French words, but he says firmly, “We must of went different ways. I don’t rightly recollect no water, ever.””
    —M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)