110 Florida Quotes That Will Make You Dream About Vacation

Florida is our favorite place to live. And vacation. And write about. And these Florida quotes show so many reasons why.

It’s a crazy, beautiful, unique state which some people love to hate, others hate to love, and some of us just love to love. While Flori-duh Man stories may dominate the headlines, quotes about Florida reveal all the nuances of why people love Florida and how celebrities feel about the Sunshine State.

Though there are hundreds of quotes about Florida, these 110 Florida quotes are some of my favorites and really show off the different parts of the state. While you might have seen many of these in other Florida quotes for Instagram posts or on memes, I’ve also included quotes about my favorite part of Florida – her natural resources.

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These quotes about Florida are perfect for your Florida vacation dream board. Or maybe as an Instagram caption. Whatever you use them for, I hope you love them as much as I do. And I hope they inspire you to dream of your next Florida trip.

Quotes About Living in Florida

1. Some call it Florida, I call it heaven. -Unknown

2. My relationship with Florida is fraught because I didn’t want to be living there always, but then after I left I really missed it. -Sarah Gerard

3. Florida is the world’s greatest amusement park. -Budd Schulberg

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4. Florida is a place of parallel communities that don’t always intersect and have totally different ways of looking at the world. They might do certain things together, but they don’t necessarily mix. -John Sayles

5. In Florida, we salt margaritas, not sidewalks.

6. It’s always sunny in the Sunshine State. Except for at night. -Jarod Kintz

7. Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane. -Tom Feeney

8. Florida is a place for innovation, for prosperity, for pioneering. – Hendrith Vanlon Smith, Jr.

9. Florida isn’t so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wishes to be found. -Douglas Coupland

10. August in Florida is God’s way of reminding us who’s in charge. -Blaize Clement

11. No winter coats in Florida, no boots, no chains, no salt, no plows, and shovels. In the balmy state of Florida, fruits fell in the meanest yard. -Christine Schutt

12. Florida is so hot that people crowd around fire to cool down. -Seth Lyon

13. Miami is one of these places when diversity is in our blood, where, you know, if you want to go have a Nicaraguan breakfast, a Cuban lunch, and an American dinner, you do. -Ana Navarro

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14. We have the best quality of life in Florida. – Peter Straw

15. Gone to Florida, be back never.

16. I am absolutely convinced that Florida will become the most exciting place in the world to live and work. -Rick Scott

17. While living in Florida I realized that I could never stay there, because it’s so damn hot. There’s only like three months when you don’t feel like you’re on the cusp of hell. -Jennifer L. Armentrout

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18. I followed my heart, and it brought me all the way to Florida. -Unknown

19. The post-traumatic shock from living in Florida never goes away, yet part of me is forever attached to that eccentric, heat-infested swamp. -Jennifer Harrison

20. I live in Florida and people are crazy here. And I say that lovingly. -Amy Seimetz

21. Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and how nothing makes sense but still, somehow, there is a rhythm. -Roxanne Gay

22. Some call it a vacation…I call it home.

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23. November. It was already getting cold in the Panhandle. I’m talking bone cold. Temperatures were sinking all the way to sixty-two degrees in some places. -Sean Dietrich

24. I didn’t start my career, or really, my life before I came to Florida. -Charlotte Flair

25. Natives of the Florida Keys often refer to themselves as Conchs, and for good reason: they have been drinking. -Dave Barry

26. The beach communities along Scenic Hwy 30A somehow manage to drip Southern family charm, pioneer cutting-edge design, and stay out of the limelight. They also share what may be the best beach in the continental US. -The New York Times

27. When people ask how close to the beach I am, I say, “12 minutes or 12 hours. Depends on which beach you want to go to.” -Jarod Kintz

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28. One thing about living in South Florida is that everywhere you go is violently air-conditioned. -Katie Cotugno

29. When you say blizzard, we think Dairy Queen.

30. For a lot of people at different times in their life, Florida represents a new start. –Larry Reimer

31. Florida: where summer lasts 6 months, twice a year.

32. You know you live in Florida when you have more beach towels than regular bath towels.

Florida Quotes About Nature

33. The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the everglades of Florida. It is a river of grass. -Marjory Stoneman Douglas

34. Most don’t enter [the Everglades] through a gated entrance as is done at so many other national parks, but through invisible passageways by sea. -Stefanie Payne

35. Spring time in Florida is not a matter of peeping violets or bursting buds merely. It is a riot of color, in nature—glistening green leaves, pink, blue, purple, yellow blossoms that fairly stagger the visitor from the north. -Zora Neale Huston

36. If we can protect and preserve the Florida panther, we can protect and preserve the future of Florida. -Burt Saunders

37. The coral reefs of the Florida Keys are a national treasure. -Terry Garcia

38. There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the Earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them. -Marjory Stoneman Douglas

39. The Florida skies are like no other, with cloud formations that are awesome! Even when it rains, the sun shines through the drops. -Connie Letang

40. Florida springs are a crystal flood, almost as transparent as the air we breathe, so extremely clear as to be absolutely diaphanous or transparent as the ether. -William Bartram

41. The springs I remember most vividly were the ones you traveled to down long, sand-track roads through dry pine hills. The first sign of something different was the dark green clump of broadleaf trees; then you saw the spring boil tumbling up out of its deep birthplace and roiling the surface with little prisms that sprayed color from the slanting light of the morning sun. . . . The clarity of the water was absolute. -Archie Carr

42. If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it. -James Carlos Blake

43. What we’ve learned is the Florida manatee is genetically unique. -Brian Bowen

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44. You only need to stand near the ocean to feel the power of the universe and a closeness to the one who created it. -Susan Gale

45. Healthy springs are vitally important for manatees and for the people of Florida. -Kim Dinkins

46. The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists – ‘cavers’, they prefer to be called. -Randy Wayne White

47. The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet. -Marjory Stoneman Douglas

48. When you don’t know the story of a place, it makes it much easier to destroy it. And so much of Florida is being destroyed because people don’t credit it with having a history . . . Because it seems there’s no story here, everything in Florida can be made new, and I think that’s wrong and I think we harm ourselves irrevocably by destroying our history. -Diane Roberts

49. We live in a state that has fire ants that actually kill people. We have scorpions and spiders and boa constrictors and all those scary things. -Jerry Hayes

50. Florida springs will not protect themselves; those who know and love them must protect them. -Jim Stevenson

51. It’s always sunny in the Sunshine State. Except at night. -Jarod Kintz

52. Florida springs have shaped our art and language.  Springs shaped the people who used them. -Bill Belleville

53. Floridians like to say there aren’t roaches in Florida – there’s just “palmetto bugs.” If you don’t know what the difference between a roach and a palmetto bug is – a palmetto bug is a roach with wings that’s large enough to carry away screaming children from their mothers’ arms. -Seth Lyon

Quotes About Visiting Florida

54. When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions…I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can’t quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally. -John Barrowman

55. There is only one problem in taking a winter vacation in Florida. You spend two weeks getting a deep, rich, golden tan — then they hand you the bill and you’re pale again. -Robert Orben

56.You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a trip to Florida, and that’s basically the same thing.

57. I’m also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, “Do not actually put your hand in the alligator,” while terror says, “Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist.” -Mira Grant

58. Since we offer sunny beaches and great weather, everyone from around the world comes to South Florida. -Rich Miller

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59. Time for some Vitamin Sea.

60. Indian River oranges and Ruskin tomatoes, as much as the beach and the postcard, helped shape Florida’s image as a winter paradise and bountiful dream state. -Gary Mormino

61. If you come here as a tourist in January, you certainly want to see palm trees. But in July in South Florida, you don’t want to stand under a palm tree. -Alyce Robertson

62. Florida tends to be one of those places that people like to play in the winter. -Gary Bongiovanni

63. I think everything in South Florida is wonderful, except for I-95. It’s so crowded with cars whizzing by you that you literally fear for your life. -Jay Shapiro

64. A bad day in Florida is still better than a good day anywhere else.

65. Remember that Florida is a land of weirdos and bizarre happenings, and conduct yourselves accordingly. -Jeff Zentner

66. The only remedy for snow is plenty of salt and sand.

67. I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather are all I really need. I like going to Florida – to Miami and to visit my mom in Fort Meyers. -Rob Gronkowski

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68. Key West called, and they have a beach waiting for you.

69. You’ll never regret where you are until you decide where you’d rather be.

70. I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It’s a weird place, it’s surreal. It’s so close but you feel like you’re in another world or on an island. -Jemima Kirke

71. Salt in the air. Sand in my hair.

72. You can leave the Florida Keys but the Florida Keys never leave you.

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73. Sometimes I think I’ve figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida, swamped by incongruity and paradox, and I have to start all over again. -Susan Orlean

74. It doesn’t matter how much I think I know about Florida, it still flips me on the head every time. It’s just an absurd, electric place, and the stories that can come out of that place just never stop. -Matt Passmore

75. Florida is different things to different people. To some, Florida is a paradise. It is warm water, sun-drenched beaches, mysterious swamps, and stunning coral reefs. -Perry Chang

Healing Florida Quotes

76. You can shake the sand from your shoes but not from your soul.

77. Saltwater heals everything.

78. Florida is a very healing place. –Burt Reynolds

79. If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both made of saltwater mixed with air.

80. May every sunrise hold more promise, and every sunset hold more peace. -Umair Siddiqui

Funny Quotes About Florida

81. My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law. -Jerry Seinfeld

82. Pink flamingos are red-white giraffe ducks. But they don’t lay eggs. Instead, they pop out cocktails on the south Florida beaches. -Jarod Kintz

83. Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. -Lenny Bruce

84. The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind. -Carl Hiaasen

85. A lot of weird stuff has gone on in Florida. Florida is the new California. -Shaun Cassidy

86. It’s Florida. Hair is just an extra sweater I’m forced to wear. -Emma Gonzalez

87. I happen to know that Florida is now working on something that could revolutionize its real estate market. It’s an alligator that eats crabgrass. -Robert Orben

88. Miami drivers will attempt to pass you inside a car wash. -Dave Barry

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89. No, really. I’ve been holding my breath for someone in Florida to use their turn signal and I haven’t breathed since 1993. -Unknown

Other Quotes About Florida

90. The only way you’re going to save things in life is through love, and that’s what we’re trying to do …. make people fall in love with Florida. -Clyde Butcher

91. There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orange trees. -Tim Dorsey

92. The whole problem with growth in Florida is the money comes after the impacts. -Steve Hedrick

93. Florida is a golden word. The very name Florida carried the message of warmth and ease and comfort. It was irresistible. –John Steinbeck

94. It’s not a right to play at Florida. It’s a privilege. – Will Muschamp

95. My love for you is like a Florida sunset. Orange, coral, pink, and lavender, it exists to warm your heart through the inevitable darkness. -Jarod Kintz

96. In Miami there’s a Latin flavor, and I just love every bit of it. -Ryan Guzman

97. What’s special about Miami is the collision of cultures. And the white sand beaches and fantastic restaurants. -Jeffrey Dean Morgan

98. The railing of the balcony was cold but the blue-black night air was so warm in October, in Florida, it felt as if it could hold you, all that wetness like a blanket of kisses. -Heather Sellers

99.. There’s no place like Florida.

100. Yes, give us books about the psychotic behavior and peripheral weirdness we see all around every day — and we will laugh in its face. We are a proud people. We are Floridians. -Tim Dorsey

101. Florida: America’s hot, moist land-Wang. -Chuck Wending

103. Florida means land of flowers, not land of ugly. -Bill Jonson

Poems About Florida

And because I love poetry, I leave you with a few excerpts from poems about Florida.

104. To East—a mythic crystal Sea: / To West—a Gulf of molten gold;— / And both a wealth of life enfold— / And ancient tales of mystery— /  —’Round Florida. -From Florida-The Treasure Land by George Merrick

105. For it is her: by the wise men planned: / —(Where the Old does not avail)— / That the Gulf ebbs east: and the Sea wends west— / By the Tam-i-am-i Trail. – From The Tamiami Trail by George Merrick

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106. AMERICA always! / Always our own feuillage! / Always Florida’s green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the / cotton-fields of Alabama and Texas! / Always California’s golden hills and hollows-and the silver mountains of New Mexico! -From American Feuillage by Walt Whitman

107. I recall / the calm warm sea of Florida / 30 years ago, and my brother / and I staring out in the hope / that someone known and loved / would return out of air and water. -From An Ending by Philip Levine

108. The state with the prettiest name, / the state that floats in brackish water, / held together by mangrove roots. -From Florida by Elizabeth Bishop

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109. Again in Florida I float on transparent lakes – I float on the Okeechobee – I cross the / hummock land, or through pleasant openings, or dense forests; / I see the parrots in the woods – I see the papaw tree and the blossoming titi; -From Longings for Home by Walt Whitman

110. I’m looking forward to / letting my bare feet sink in silt / the waves weighing me down / salt sea leaving me breathless. -From I’m Looking Forward To by Kim Rodrigues

Closing: Florida Quotes

There are many, many other quotes about Florida that are fun to read and might even inspire some of your Florida vacation. These are my favorites, and I intentionally chose some that highlight the fragility of Florida’s ecosystems.

If you love these, you might also love my inspirational travel quotes which I read when I’m wanderlusting, or the best quotes about summer which keep me warm on our “cold” winter days.

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