Alaska Quotes

• We all use the future to escape the present.

  John Green

  Life, Imagining The Future, Labyrinth

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

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• To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

  John Muir

  Country, Travel, World

  "The Collected Works of John Muir".

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• A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.

  Sarah Palin

  Men, Location, Global Warming

  "Palin on global warming". www.theguardian.com. October 06, 2008.

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• 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.

  Dan Miller

  Thinking, Working Together, Lines

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• I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

  Lisa Loeb

  Thinking, Rooms, Normal

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• The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Settlers, Originals

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• To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Equality, Race

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.101, Modern Library

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• So the lover must struggle for words.

  T. S. Eliot

  Struggle, Lovers, Asthma

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.574, Faber & Faber

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• We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

  John Green

  Hope, Teenage, Broken

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life.

  Will Estes

  Dog, Animal, Lovers

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• Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

  Bing Crosby

  Christmas, Xmas, Blessed

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• One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.

  Frank Murkowski

  Pioneers, Roles, Development

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• It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?

  John Green

  Pain, Talking, Suffering

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

  Walter Martin

  People, Lovers

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• This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.

  Jeff Goldblum

  People, Should, Bigs

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• Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.58, Penguin

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• Good fences make good neighbors.

  Robert Frost

  Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, Mind Your Own Business, Misunderstood

  "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)

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• It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Half, Guessing

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

  John Green

  Teenage, Stupid, Real

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

  John Green

  Real, Waiting, Lasts

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• Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.

  Richard Widmark

  Education, Good Friend, Lovers

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• I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.

  Emile Hirsch

  Grateful, Thinking, Climbing

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• We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

  John Green

  Teenage, Energy, Teens

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

  John Green

  Labyrinth, Mazes, Looks

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.118, Penguin

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• Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

  Simon Bolivar

  Labyrinth, Bedtime, Damn

  Simon Bolivar's statement made in the last months of his life, occasionally said to be his last words; quoted in Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The General in His Labyrinth" (p. 267), 1990.

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