Top Alaska Quotes Collection
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As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where – where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border.Collection: Alaska
Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.Collection: Alaska
Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.Collection: Alaska
In 1977, I climbed a fairly difficult mountain for the first time, which was Mount McKinley, in Alaska. I climbed the so-called 'American Direct Route,' which was a route straight up to the top. I really enjoyed it. Through such experiences, I learned that mountaineering wasn't just about height. I found that different routes have different charms.Collection: Alaska
The Coastal Plain of Alaska has great potential for energy development. Americans have paid record-high prices for oil and gas in the year 2005.Collection: Alaska
One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.Collection: Alaska
Voters replaced Democratic senators with Republicans in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, and likely in Alaska, and appear on track to do so in a runoff next month in Louisiana. At the same time, voters kept Republicans in GOP seats in heavily contested races in Georgia, Kansas, and Kentucky. That is at least ten, and as many as a dozen, tough races, without a single Republican seat changing hands. Tuesday's voting was a wave alright - a very anti-Democratic wave.Collection: Alaska
Not everyone agrees the bears should be protected. Hunters, oil interests, even the state of Alaska has questions about the effects protection would have on oil and gas exploration and commercial shipping. But for many others, the bears are a symbol of a bigger crisis threatening the planet.Collection: Alaska
The dictionary has been in the making for several decades, and the result is well worth the wait. MacLean and those who worked with her have consulted with Iñupiaq speakers from across Alaska's North Slope to compile a comprehensive collection of word stems, along with postbases, grammatical endings, and an array of other valuable material. . . . This dictionary will prove fascinating for anyone interested in the Iñupiat and their language.Collection: Alaska
The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland.Collection: Alaska
Alaska is so unblemished. It really gives you a good look back at what the earth looks like without a lot human beings crawling all over it.Collection: Alaska
Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?Collection: Alaska
Every lover is a soldier.Collection: Alaska
And Alaska - we're set up, unlike other states in the union, where it's collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs. It's to maximize benefits for Alaskans, not an individual company, not some multinational somewhere, but for Alaskans.Collection: Alaska
They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.Collection: Alaska
A priest is sent to Alaska. A bishop goes up to visit one year later. The bishop asks, How do you like it up here? The priest says, If it wasn't for my Rosary, and 2 martinis a day, I'd be lost. Bishop, would you like a martini? Yes. Rosary, get the bishop a martini!Collection: Alaska
I certainly wish Gov. Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views...and then go back to Alaska.Collection: Alaska
For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.Collection: Alaska
We're gonna put $456 million to go to an island of 50 people? You know... The bridge to nowhere. And this is right after Katrina happened. And so I offer an amendment to take that money from Alaska and repair the stuff in Louisiana.Collection: Alaska
I was pretty blown away by how vast and aggressive the terrain is in the Japanese Alps. You're looking up at peaks, and it's like Alaska seeing all kinds of amazing stuff that looks ridable, but it's 70 percent death defying; only a small percentage really goes.Collection: Alaska
There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.Collection: Alaska
The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on over the next ridge and over the one beyond. The call is that of a wilderness known only to a few...This last American wilderness must remain sacrosanct.Collection: Alaska
To be with another scientist and make a discovery and share that with a global audience, or working with bear biologists in Alaska, by helicopter - [it's] really what I've given my whole life to. And I get to do that just about every week.Collection: Alaska
That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up.Collection: Alaska
And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.Collection: Alaska
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.Collection: Alaska
No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.Collection: Alaska
This one's for Alaska Young!Collection: Alaska
Good fences make good neighbors.Collection: Alaska
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.Collection: Alaska
It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.Collection: Alaska
Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska YoungCollection: Alaska
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.Collection: Alaska
At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.Collection: Alaska
Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?Collection: Alaska
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.Collection: Alaska
I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.Collection: Alaska
There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed.Collection: Alaska
You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.Collection: Alaska
But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.Collection: Alaska
Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.Collection: Alaska
Vengeance is a dish best served cold. (Thanatos) We’re in Alaska, dickhead. Here everything is cold. (Zarek)Collection: Alaska
Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.'Collection: Alaska
The longest-serving Republican Senator, Alaska's Ted Stevens, found guilty just a few hours ago on all charges in his corruption trial. Do you know this story? He failed to report he had some work done on his house. Yeah, here's the bad part. You know who did the work? Joe the plumber. Unlicensed.Collection: Alaska
Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.Collection: Alaska