Sunshine State

Sunshine State may refer to:

  • The nickname of the Australian state of Queensland
  • The nickname of the U.S. state of Florida; it also has been used for New Mexico, California, and South Dakota
  • Sunshine State (film), a 2002 film set in Florida
  • Florida's Turnpike, originally known as the Sunshine State Parkway
  • Sunshine State, a webcomic by Graham Nolan.

Famous quotes containing the words sunshine and/or state:

    “Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    “It is said that he once had a sore toe that so annoyed him that he went to the woodpile and chopped it off with an axe, quoting the Scripture, ‘If thy foot offend thee, cut it off.’”
    —For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)