Alaska Quotes - Page 3

Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska - sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.

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.

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

In a recent interview, Hillary Clinton said that one of the jobs that prepared her to be president was sliming fish in Alaska. As opposed to Bill, who learned by catching crabs in Cancun.

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new civilization on a bleak and rock bound coast. It was the White Men who drove north to Alaska and west to California; the men who opened up the tropics and subdued the Arctics; the men who mastered the African Veldts; the men who peopled Australia and seized the gates of the world at Suez, Gibraltar and Panama.

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.

I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.

We know there are states, like Alaska, where there are not a lot of providers. How do we work on issues like that? How do we work on making sure that the small-business part of this works better?... And if people have [alternate] plans, let's compare them and see. Access, affordability, and quality - that's what this is about. [But] "repeal" is a symbol of something that I don't think is connected to the substance of what's happening. Do you want to take away care from people who have preexisting conditions? [Repeal] takes you backward.

With the most powerful binoculars, I cannot see Alaska.

Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. 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.

When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.

In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.

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.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

My first trip was the Appalachian Trail, and I was able to finish it despite having no skills and no experience when I started. In comparison, I can think of only a few individuals in the world who have the potential do complete the Alaska-Yukon Expedition.

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood

There's no doubt 'normal' is changing - spring actually came a month early in Alaska, for example, and we had to stop filming.

Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.