I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

- Dorothy Malone

I love downtown Seattle. It's a city that has all of the outdoor activities and is still a very cosmopolitan city.

- Greg LeMond

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

- Gordon Parks

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

- George Stigler

I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.

- Gary Locke

For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.

- Gary Locke

I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, that believe in me - I'm going to say this: I'm not going to disappoint anybody.

- Felix Hernandez

I can't say anything I don't love about Seattle.

- Felix Hernandez

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

- Frances Farmer

I went to several different grade schools all over the West Coast. I got polio when I was 8 and spent eight months in the hospital and a rehab clinic in Seattle.

- Dennis Washington

I really liked the Seattle movement.

- Axl Rose

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

- Donald Byrd

I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.

- Daniel Breaker

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

- David Guterson

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

- David Guterson

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

- Dave Grohl

Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.

- Chris Benz

I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from.

- Cam Gigandet

I think we were instrumental in saving downtown Seattle. To me, that's the biggest thing we did.

- Bruce Nordstrom

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

- Adam Jones