Looking for inspirational quotes about Oklahoma? Here are my favorite Oklahoma quotes. You can use them on social media and for Oklahoma Instagram captions, or you can just enjoy these beautiful words about this beautiful state!
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The Best Quotes about Oklahoma
Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has. -Edna Ferber
You come to Oklahoma to beat Texas. -Baker Mayfield
I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud. -N. Scott Momaday
Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain. -Oscar Hammerstein II
When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states. -Will Rogers

You know you’re down and out when Okies laugh at you. -Jeannette Walls
You’re the reason God made Oklahoma. -David Frizzell & Shelly West
Well, I never been to heaven but I been to Oklahoma. -Hoyt Axton
I’m from Oklahoma City, and there’s a statue across from the site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building of Jesus. It’s called ‘Jesus Wept.’ And I love this statue because it’s a statue of Jesus with his head in his hand. And his sadness and his pain at some of the choices that are made here – that just breaks his heart. -Holly Hunter
We’d out-Okied the Okies. -Jeannette Walls

People don’t know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it. -Barry Switzer
Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger. -Brad Henry
In some ways, I’m still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I’m trying to find my way. -Brad Pitt
I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that’s where I want to raise my kids. -Carrie Underwood
I like Oklahoma. It’s a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you. -Nadia Comaneci

I like to call the ethos I grew up with ‘Oklahoma values.’ But you’d be just as accurate if you said ‘American values.’ Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that’s American. -J. C. Watts
Something called ‘the Oklahoma Standard’ became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means strength and compassion that will not be defeated. -Brad Henry
Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa. -J. C. Watts
I love eating at Sonic with my family in Oklahoma. And no, I’m not kidding. -Kristin Chenoweth
Everybody knows that I like Oklahoma City, and I love being here. I love everybody here. -Russell Westbrook

We don’t have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from – Oklahoma. We don’t ride around in covered wagons, either. -Carrie Underwood
I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country. -Nadia Comaneci
When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out – and it’s been sold out ever since. -Darrell Royal
I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life. -Reba McEntire
A couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma. -Adam Duritz

If you don’t like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it’ll change. -Will Rogers
They portray me as a hick just because I enjoy some of the things people in Oklahoma like. I think people expect me to come out wearing my boots and spurs. -Troy Aikman
I like California but I’m dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody’s standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that’s the enemy! -Blake Shelton
An Oklahoma girl like me wouldn’t even know how to be a diva. I’m just a person who has a cool job. -Carrie Underwood
The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington. -Yakov Smirnoff

Oklahoma residents are known for not backing down from a fight in the political arena, on the gridiron, NBA courts or rodeo arenas, but in their reaction to the bombing, they knew intuitively they would not find restoration in rage. -Tom Brokaw
It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that. -Nadia Comaneci
Oh, honey, I’m from Oklahoma! This is who I am – middle-class all the way! -Annette Bening
Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It’s called Tulsa. -Bobby Heenan
As beautiful as Oklahoma is, it doesn’t have big lights and none of that. But that’s fine… I’m a low-maintenance, low-key, chill guy. -Paul George

I didn’t live in L.A. I lived in Oklahoma, and I liked to do normal things with normal people. -Tommy Morrison
Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from ‘The Grapes of Wrath’: even the poorest capitalists have cars! Richard Corliss
Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level – to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother, ‘I want to be an artist’ – is a good thing. -Jeffrey Deitch
Oklahoma has a respect for our neighbors. That’s the Oklahoma standard. -Markwayne Mullin
To be a world champion from Oklahoma is something that really pushes me. -Johny Hendricks

I’m from Oklahoma. I mean, you can’t have good hair in Oklahoma. That’s why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up. -Ronnie Dunn
Oklahoma is the cultural center of the universe. -Hoyt Axton
Oklahoma City’s not real small; it’s got a good amount of the people. -Blake Griffin
I had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes. -Chris Paul
With the exception of my wife and children, there’s nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage. -James Garner

I’ll keep us out of war with Oklahoma! -Kinky Friedman
This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives. -Lizz Winstead
You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma. -Wanda Jackson
There’s a full moon over Tulsa, I hope that it’s shining on you. -David Frizzell & Shelly West
One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante’s plastic Paradiso, or Yeats’s gold-plated Byzantium. -Edward Abbey
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Stephanie Craig is a born-and-bred Oklahoma mom and travel expert who has been to over fifty countries. After traveling all over the world, Stephanie moved back to Oklahoma to explore more of her own backyard. Her favorite things to do in Oklahoma include visiting the Blue Whale of Catoosa, the Arcadia Round Barn, and the Talimena Scenic Byway.