Springfield Quotes

The Simpsons is the best thing on American television.

In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.

Thanks to Bart Simpson, I have a pretty good life.

I've been a diehard fan of 'The Simpsons' since I was a kid.

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.

I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.

They could never beat me in Springfield. I loved that old ballpark. If I could have pitched there all my career, I'd be a 300-game winner.

The Simpsons are going to Delaware!

I've always loved The Simpsons, just because it was really, really funny. As a kid, you love the characters. You know that the dad is dumb and frustrated, and you know that the boy is smarter than everyone else around him and is constantly getting into mischief.

We have to be bold, tough, and fundamentally change government because Springfield is broken.

I felt like I was a natural [in The Simpsons].

The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.

I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies.

Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.

I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon [George] Washington.

One of the things my mom used to do - I don't know why she chose me, but she chose me out of her six children to take to the African-American church that was in the town that we lived in Springfield, Missouri. And we would go to the church, and we would sit in the back row, and we would listen to all of the spirituals in the hymns.

And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church.

That guy in 'The Simpsons' - I love Groundskeeper Willie.

When you look at what makes America great, what makes America, you know, not great, our ups and our downs, Springfield represents all of it.