Kansas City Southern

Famous quotes containing the words kansas city, kansas, city and/or southern:

    “Kansas City is lost; I am here!”
    —A. Edward Sullivan. Professor Quail (W.C. Fields)

    “Since the Civil War its six states have produced fewer political ideas, as political ideas run in the Republic, than any average county in Kansas or Nebraska.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

    “Southern trees bear a strange fruit
    Blood on the leaf and blood at the root
    Black bodies swingin’ in the southern breeze
    Strange fruit hangin’ in the poplar trees.”
    —Billie Holiday [Eleanor Fagan] (1915–1959)