Omaha Quotations

I was pulled out of Omaha when I was younger because my father started to work, when he was done serving as county commissioner, at Archer Daniels Midland.

When I was seven, these kids in the alley behind our house in Omaha called me Freckleface Strawberry. I hated my freckles, and I hated that name. I thought it was humiliating in the way that only a seven-year-old could hate it.

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.

In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?

In 1962, I had an entry-level reporter's job at an Omaha television station. I had bargained to get a salary of $100 dollars a week because I didn't feel I could tell Meredith's doctor father I was making less.

We strongly oppose the Nebraska law that divides the Omaha public schools along racial lines. The Supreme Court ruled those 52 years ago that separate but equal schools result in inequality and poor education for minority children. We will use every advocacy tool, including legal, at our disposal to fight this unconstitutional law.

There are no moral victories, because a loss is a loss. Just because we're playing a good team like Omaha and we played well in the final two periods doesn't mean that we should be happy about what happened out there.

Omaha hasn't lost in something like 10 games, which makes it even tougher. We have to help ourselves.

My favorite Starbucks is nice - Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and the baristas are especially lovely at mine - but it's still a Starbucks.

needs to go and help Tim in Omaha because his car broke down there and to pick up a TV set Tim has ... and he needs to go right now.

I believe we're an Omaha team. Coach Polk made a comment before the game that we'd like to go 56-0, but we're going to lose sometime. ... We hope not.

Certainly, if you ask me, I'd rather be 8-4 than 4-8, but we've played a great schedule. We've played some real good clubs both historically and currently; teams that have played in Omaha and that consistently play in the postseason.

Buffett invited me to a golf tournament in Omaha and I went to play in it, and we became friends. And he invited me to his stockholders meeting.

Fullerton is just like us, in that their first area of concentration is pitching and defense. I think they are an Omaha team. I don't think there is any question about it.

I think we've realized the intensity that has to be matched or taken into these games. If we run the table and Omaha still stays ahead of us, kudos to them, but basically we control a lot of our own destiny.

My mother flew out to see us on April 9. She had never flown before, and that snowstorm stretched from the Midwest to the East Coast. Her trip from Omaha was filled with delays, rough flights and circling airports for hours. She swore she would never fly again.

I was in college and had a group called the Royal Flairs. We opened for the Stones when they appeared in Omaha during their first U.S. tour.

When it comes to educating our children, bigger is not better. I don't think we need an Omaha takeover of the suburban school districts.

We played even with a great team in the second and third periods. But Omaha is a team that plays with a great desire to win for a full 60 minutes. We didn't do that.

We're not the UNO news, so we strive to branch out to the Omaha community.

We just generally look to the higher education units in Omaha as sources of people who would attend Darwin Day. Generally, it's a fairly small audience. Typically, it is 25 to 40 people. We are hoping for a larger audience.

Every team will give us their best shot, and Omaha played hard. Our depth was a factor in the second half.

An integral part of the mission of Omaha Performing Arts is to bring the very best in national and international touring artists to our community.

As far as getting up for the meet and getting excited, Mutual of Omaha did a great job of setting up the venue, so the atmosphere around the pool and from the people in the stands didn't reflect that we were up by so much. Their energy really carried us through.

As a gathering place for the community, it is a pleasure to join in the excitement of this event. We look forward to providing people in the Omaha area their first opportunity to acquire this historic item, which we are all proud of.

This is the same circus as last year. It's the same production company that does the Shrine Circus in Omaha that just ended.

It wasn't like that when I started out in Omaha (in 1957). I walked into the clubhouse here and I remember the one we had in Omaha was about one-third the size of that.

I told her that Jeff Buckley brings a tear to my eye. By coincidence Jackie was a Buckley fan had been to a Bright Eyes concert the night before and I really liked him too. It blew my mind that I'd met a woman who was not only into the same music, but with whom I could talk about Omaha poker strategy. When I first started chatting to Jackie I was even unaware that she was a woman because it's often hard to tell by the nicknames people use online.

I took two weeks off before I went to Omaha and won there, now I've taken two weeks off again, ... Maybe it's time to do it again.

Football is not war. Never was, never will be. Gettysburg, Omaha Beach, Pork Chop Hill, Kosovo, Auschwitz, that's war. This is a game.

For a long time Dermot worked more, and I would always go on location with him... Dermot did all the work-I think he commuted maybe 10 times between flying to Omaha from Toronto. It takes effort when you're both working, but we try not to work at the same time.

That means a lot and they've always been really good. They've been to Omaha three times already. I think they like to get away and I appreciate them being there.

It's important not to get frustrated, and I really don't think we came into this game that way. We just wanted to get a fresh start, but Omaha comes at you hard here.

I'm never going to count myself out (of making the Flames' roster). I'm going to camp to make the big club. That's the goal. So I'm not going to sit here and say that I'm expecting to go to Omaha because I've got seven months to work my hardest.

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who diedevery man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

In 1862, when the charter was granted by the United States Government for the construction of a railroad from Omaha to the Pacific coast, the only States west of the Mississippi Valley in which any railroad construction of importance existed were Iowa and Missouri.

But I do know this: My father was on Omaha Beach 55 years ago. If you want to know how he would feel if he were here today, he wouldn't fight -- no one fought for one side of this case or the other. He fought as all those did for our country and our Constitution. And as long as each of us -- manager, president's counsel, senator -- does his or her constitutional duty, those who fought for their country will be proud,

George is probably as talented or more talented than all the national champions I've had put together. Nothing's easy, but I figured he would win Chicago Golden Gloves. Hopefully now he'll go to Omaha and win a bout or two.

I could ask Phil to go on conditioning (assignment) and he could say yes or no. This way, I don't have to ask him. If I want to send him down, (I'll) send him down. We have two (goalies) playing in Omaha and 20 in the National Hockey League that could move here tomorrow. We're as good as our weakest player and the other night he was our weakest player. It's not acceptable.

The frequencies we use have been used by (the Omaha Public Power District) and Union Pacific. Those frequencies have bouncing around those neighborhoods for years.

You can park your snark at the gate, Omaha.

Omaha is a game that was invented by a sadist and is played by masochists.