Denver Quotes

• Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

  John Hickenlooper

  Past, Cities, Defined

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• I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me.

  Richard Lamm

  Impact, Office, Groups

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• Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup.

  Joe Sakic

  Running, Rays, Want

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• As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

  Sandra Lee

  Kids, Perfect, Charming

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• And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to get to Denver at once.

  Jack Kerouac

  Air, Blue, Mountain

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.

  Nicolas Cage

  Sharks, Panthers, Lizards

  "The Heat-Seeking Panther" by Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. July 22, 2010.

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• Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

  Gale Norton

  Growing Up, Mountain, Colorado

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• I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!

  Robert Plant

  New York, Butterfly, Iron

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• My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Regret, Humor

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• I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like the Prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark Word, and the only Word I had was 'Wow!

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Dark, Night

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.139, Penguin

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• Down in Denver, all I did was die.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dies

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.144, Penguin

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• I'm happy with the Arena Football League right now. I'm happy in Denver.

  John Elway

  Sports, Football, League

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• As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Country, Home, Kids

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• My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

  Anita Diament

  Childhood, Jersey, My Family

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• I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

  Ted Shackelford

  College, Men, Degrees

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• That's Denver Beck, isn't it? Paul mentioned him. What's he like?" Ori asked. "Oh, where do I start? Beck's mouthy and he lives to tell me what to do." In short, he's so not you. "Why do you want to know?" A glimmer appeared in Ori's dark eyes. "Just scoping out the competition.

  Jana Oliver

  Eye, Dark, Competition

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.216, Pan Macmillan

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• LeRoy says there's something you should know, not everybody has a place to go. And home is just a place to hang your head, and dream of things to do in Denver when you're dead.

  Warren Zevon

  Dream, Travel, Home

  Song: Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Album: Mr. Bad Example, 1991

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• The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Editors, Pot, Posts

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• Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver?

  Tim Allen

  Reality, Flight, Santa Clause

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• I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.

  Condoleezza Rice

  White, Alabama, Born

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• An American in London...cannot but be impressed and charmed by the city. The momumentality of Washington, the thriving business of New York, the antique intimacy of Boston, plus a certain spacious and open feeling reminiscent of Denver and San Francisco-all these he finds combined for his pleasure.

  John Updike

  New York, Boston, Cities

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• I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.

  Bill Frisell

  School, Black And White, Lucky

  "When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

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• I never was very big on praying for victory. For God to give a big win to the Denver Broncos, wouldn't He have to take it away from somebody else, say, the Green Bay Packers?

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Winning, Nfl

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• Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

  Paul Goldberger

  Atlanta, Cities, Houston

  "The Next American System". The Blueprint America Interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.

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• I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Writing, Cabins, Sitting

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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