Oregon Quotes

• Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.

  Dave Barry

  Gdp, Literature, Miles

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• Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

  Lance Armstrong

  Portland Oregon, Weather, Path

  "Lance Armstrong In 2012: On Exercise, Diet And Why He Won't Go Into Politics". Interview with Rebecca Zamon, www.huffingtonpost.ca. March 28, 2012.

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• Oregon is an inspiration. Whether you come to it, or are born to it, you become entranced by our state's beauty, the opportunity she affords, and the independent spirit of her citizens.

  Tom McCall

  Inspiration, Independent, Opportunity

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• This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.

  Tom McCall

  Love Life, Terminal Cancer, Activist

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• Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Suicide, Unions, States

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• We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going.

  Tom McCall

  Moving, Portland Oregon, Heaven

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• As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.

  Ron Wyden

  Innovation, Use, World

  "We Can’t Take the Internet for Granted" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2011.

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• A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.

  Ted Kulongoski

  Strong, Aquariums, Healthy

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• There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.

  Patrick Duffy

  Home, Weekend

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• In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation.

  Peter DeFazio

  Years, Diversity, Crafts

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• Oregon welcomed me like a beloved child, enfolded me in her cool arms, shushed my turbulent thoughts, and promised peace through her whispering pines.

  Colleen Houck

  Children, Whispering, Arms

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• I'm from Oregon. This is a town of no. I say no to a lot of things, and I get told no for a lot of things. Sometimes there's a yes, and you hope you see something in it.

  David Anders

  Towns, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Moving, Adventure

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Growing up during World War II certainly affected my whole view of life, but I hardly know how, it goes so deep. What's hard to explain now is that, though we were never invaded, and bombed only once and ineffectively on the coast of Oregon, everybody in the country was in that war. Everything we did was influenced by it - eating, traveling, dressing, thinking - everything in daily life.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Growing Up, War

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.

  Kaitlin Olson

  Hippie, Thinking, People

  "Kaitlin Olson, Tualatin native, stars in 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. September 15, 2010.

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  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product.

  Ron Wyden

  Agreement, Want, Tariffs

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• Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Kids

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• The interests of Oregon for today and in the future must be protected from the grasping wastrels of the land. We must respect another truism - that unlimited and unregulated growth, leads inexorably to a lowered quality of life.

  Tom McCall

  Land, Growth, Quality

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• Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, Team, Men

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• Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind.

  Douglas Coupland

  Lakes, Mind, Sitting

  Douglas Coupland (2001). “Miss Wyoming”, p.58, Vintage

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• I lived in a cabin in the woods in Oregon, and I'd basically given up on the music industry for an indefinite amount of time. And while I was out there, I came up with a very specific vision of what I wanted my music to sound like.

  Skylar Grey

  Vision, Sound, Cabins

  "Skylar Grey on Her New Album, Eminem's Mystique and Why She Almost Quit Music (Q&A)". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2013.

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• I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.

  Gordon Smith

  Party, Wish, Republican

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• The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!

  Christopher Atkins

  Islands, Guy, Tree

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If the salmon and steelhead are running, then as far as I am concerned, God knows that all is well in His worldthe health of the environment is good if the salmon and steelhead are around. It is that simple.

  Tom McCall

  Running, Simple, Salmon

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