# Quote — Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent

> bezpqt

- Author: [Bill Bryson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson.md)
- Book: [The Lost Continent](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent.md)
- Page: 34229
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Bryson#The_Lost_Continent:_Travels_in_Small-Town_America_(1989)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
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## More from this book

> When you come from Des Moines you either accept the fact without question and settle down with a girl called Bobbi and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever or you spend your adolescence moaning at length about what a dump it is and how you can't wait to get out and then you settle down with a local girl named Bobbi and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent/when-you-come.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent/i-come-from.md)

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