Alaska Quotes - Page 4

• I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

  Jewel

  Home, Debt, Want

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• It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Unseen, Literature, Lovers

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• A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

  Moliere

  Funny Love, Dog, Teenage Love

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• Alaska itself is an unusual state.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Unusual, States

  Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.mrc.org. October 1, 2008.

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• On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

  Pierre Salinger

  President, Lovers, Obvious

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• Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something tourists like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.

  Tom Bodett

  Growing Up, Kids, Mountain

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• For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

  Sam Abell

  Japan, Australia, Sublime

  "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Interview with Jenny Wells, uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

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• It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.

  Tom Bodett

  School, Mountain, Cable Tv

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• Senate Democrats vowed Sunday to kill President Bush's energy plan. They think this is their ticket back to the White House in 2004. All they have to do now is figure out a way to get cars to run on beautiful pictures of Alaska.

  Argus Hamilton

  Beautiful, Running, Sunday

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• How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" In reality, "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" were probably not Simon Bolivar's last words (although he did, historically, say them). His last words may have been "Jose! Bring the luggage. They do not want us here." The significant source for "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" is also Alaska's source, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The General in his Labyrinth.

  John Green

  Reality, Labyrinth, Gabriel

  John Green (2005). “Looking for Alaska: A Novel”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• If you're willing to travel, or just super-desperate, the best place in the world to meet unattached men is on the Alaska pipeline. I'm told that the trek through the frozen tundra is well worth the effect for any woman who wants to know what it feels like to be Victoria Principal.

  Linda Sunshine

  Men, Dating, Frozen

  Linda Sunshine (2005). “Women Who Date Too Much... And Those Who Should Be So Lucky: Happy Dating, Great Sex, Healthy Relationships, and Other Delusions”, Three Rivers Press

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• I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news. Alaska isn't a foreign country.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, News, Source

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• After the age of seven, I began living between my dad in Alaska and my mother in Baltimore. Every three or four months, I would fly the 5,000 miles between the two. And having grown up in Alaska, Baltimore was astonishing.

  Leigh Newman

  Mother, Dad, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.

  Howard Metzenbaum

  Gun, Ak 47, Talking

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• Mitt Romney understands the importance of Alaska as a leader in our country's energy production and I look forward to working with him on such an important economic and national security matter.

  Lisa Murkowski

  Country, Leader, Important

  "Murkowski for Mitt" by Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. December 2, 2011.

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• I'm born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my degree.

  Derek Theler

  College, Degrees, Colorado

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• She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale. "DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted. Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts." "That's not any better!

  John Green

  Sorry, Whales, Body

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.51, Penguin

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• IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis the Sixteenth, the drums drowning his speech on the scaffold. Herman Melville at breakfast, feeling a sardine to his cat. Poe's wedding. Lewis Carroll's picnics. The Russians leaving Alaska, delighted with the deal. Shot of a seal applauding.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Kings, Cat, Feelings

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• He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?" "Beaver," Peter told him. "I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that.

  Nora Roberts

  War, Volcanoes, Earthquakes

  Nora Roberts (2004). “Northern Lights”, p.45, Penguin

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• But why Alaska?' I asked her. 'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means 'that which the sea breaks against,' and I love that. But at the time, I just saw Alaska up there. And it was big, just like I wanted to be.

  John Green

  Mean, Sea, Saws

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.47, Penguin

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• The demigods have left for alaska," Stheno said. "They fly straight to their death. Ah, small "d" death, I mean. Not our prisoner Death. Although, i suppose they're flying to him too.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Flying, Demigods

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• You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew.

  John Green

  Sorry, Choices, Labyrinth

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.128, Penguin

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• She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

  John Green

  Knowing, Pranks, Tricks

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.106, Penguin

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• No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.

  John Green

  Said, Brake

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.156, Penguin

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• The U.S. started with no stars. In fact, it started with a completely different flag. The last two were added in 1959, Hawaii and Alaska.

  Juan Enriquez

  Stars, Two, Different

  Source: bigthink.com

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