In Honor of Kansas - Reading, KS tornado

GOD BLESS KANSAS!

Ad Astra Per Aspera

To the Stars through Difficulties.

A tornado ripped through Reading, Kansas over the weekend along with damage in several other areas. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those involved with the storms especially the rescue workers, fireman, law enforcement, Red Cross and countless others who give of their time to help others.

The Resiliency of Kansas is amazing after disasters. Greensburg, Kansas is just one recent testament to that fact. In honor of Kansas, Kansans and people who live in or just love Kansas. We share the following quotes from the Kansas Quote page at Washburn University.

"I know we Kansa people have been accused of being unable to talk about anything else. We have been accused of 'blowing our own horn' to excess. They say we are much given to hot air and statistics. However, you and I know better. We know that half has not been told of Kansas, nor ever can be..." -Arthur Cooper, 1915

"To populate a county thirty miles square within six months, and round out the half-year with a fight over the county seat between six towns, or to build a fair-sized city within a twelve month--these achievements may seem like fiction, but they have been realities in Kansas." -John A Martin, Gov. of Kansas, 1885-89

"If there's anything better than life--it's life in Kansas. -Chamber of Commerce 1930

"The fact remains: if you are willing to work, you need never despair of getting a livelihood in Kansas." -Percy G. Ebbut, 1886, AN EMIGRANT IN KANSAS

"How for Kansas, the land that restores us When houses choke us, and great books bore us! Sunrise Kansas, harvesters' Kansas, A million men have found you before us..." -V. Lindsay in THE SANTA FE TRAIL

"If I went West, I think I would go to Kansas." -Abraham Lincoln

All of the quotes were taken from Professor Tom Averill of the Center for Kansas Studies, Washburn University Kansas Quote page.

GOD BLESS KANSAS!