Quotes About Alaska

It was as if we'd only been gone the weekend. Or had we been gone a lifetime. Part of that was because when you've lived in Alaska, living in other places seems easier, less challenging, less threatening. Alaska had enlarged each of us. No one is ever the same after coming back from Alaska.

As workers in Alaska built 800 miles of pipeline through wilderness all but uninhabited by humans, workers in Washington took up the challenge of pushing 100 miles of rapid transit through a long-settled region densely populated by lawyers.

Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.

I've always heard that heli-skiing in Alaska is amazing. I would love to be able to do that at some point in my life.

Growing up, the only acts that came to us in Alaska were the big ones. The Mariah Careys.

The whole band is from Alaska. It's like growing up anywhere else.

There's something about Detroit, man: there's a serious vibe there. It could be that blue-collar, working-class-mentality person who lives out there. There's just something about it. It reminds me of Alaska. Texas has the same thing. Detroit is a little heavier than both.

I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.

I served at the Pentagon and at Fort Leavenworth - my job was video cameraman, and that allowed me to travel to places like Korea, Japan, Alaska, Germany and the Netherlands.

The Aleutian Islands stretch 1,200 miles from the Alaska Peninsula toward Russia; crossing the international date line, they extend farther west than the Hawaiian Islands in the mid-Pacific.

With the long hours of daylight in the Alaska summers, the gardens served up a cornucopia of amazing and extra-large produce.

I think we should drill up in Alaska.

But when you look at the demographic trends of the United States, Alaska is more a throwback to the past, and Hawaii a glimpse of the future.

When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.

Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?

Suicide by Alaska.

Three-hour layover in Seattle. If you were flying Alaska Airlines and you wanted to go to hell you had to fly through Seattle to get there.

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But again, you know, the views that we've expressed are transferring power back from the federal government to the states, giving Alaska an incredible opportunity to expand its economy, especially at a time when our federal government is coming close to bankruptcy. So that is a broad-based appeal. It's not an extreme view.

I chose to document the lives of people living in a remote village in Alaska called Shishmaref because there we can literally see how climate change is affecting their homes, livelihoods and ultimately their lives.

Scientifically speaking," Quinn said, "the northern lights are electrical discharges resulting from the interaction between wind and the earth's magnetic field." "Oh." "But the Native Alaskans believe the lights were torches carried by old souls to guide the new souls into the next world.

But then, six months ago, my dad hauled me with him to this shaddy town in Alaska. Seward Peninsula, just below Arctic Circle? And then, middle of May—we flew to Fairbanks on a prop plane, and then we came here.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.