Montana Quotes

• In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

  Norman Maclean

  Brother, Father, Sea

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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• It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda.

  John Steinbeck

  Color, Land, Mountain

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.

  John Steinbeck

  Recognition, Admiration, Affection

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• Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one’s breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that even a full day of sunlight won’t warm- these all say there will be no more days that can be mistaken for summer.

  Larry Watson

  Summer, Stars, Autumn

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• THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation.

  James Lee Burke

  Commitment, Use, Earth

  James Lee Burke (2014). “Light of the World: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Wyoming is good, but Montana is like heaven on earth.

  Henry Winkler

  Wyoming, Heaven, Earth

  Source: laist.com

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• The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.

  Norman Maclean

  Numbers, World

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• Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.

  Norman Maclean

  Summer, Memories, Thinking

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

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• The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sunset, Sky, Mountain

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• Disney world is an armpit compared to Montana.

  Carl Hiaasen

  World, Armpits

  "Hoot". Book by Carl Hiaasen, 2002.

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• I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town .

  Garrison Keillor

  Sweet, College, Air

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• In Montana, a policeman will pull you over because he is lonely.

  Rich Hall

  Lonely, Nature, Policemen

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• Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

  John Steinbeck

  Boys, Thinking, Texas

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

  Conrad Burns

  Distance, School, Technology

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• Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.

  Conrad Burns

  People, States, Goods

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• I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything

  Jerry Rice

  Respect, Mvp, Want

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• Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.

  Conrad Burns

  Thank You, Teacher, Hard Work

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• We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Taxes, Raising Taxes, Can Do

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• 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.

  Ellen Meloy

  Alaska, Squares, America

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• In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

  Joe Montana

  Sports, Eight, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

  Joe Montana

  Nice, People, Trying

  "From XLIII: An interview with Joe Montana". Interview with Nick Friedell, ca.sports.yahoo.com. February 1, 2009.

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• Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that.

  John Lee Hancock

  Thinking, Fishing, Might

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• Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted snowdrift which caps the peak of a lofty mountain there trickles into tiny rills, which hurry along north, south, east and west, and growing to rivers, at last pour their currents into three seas. From this mountain-peak the Pacific and the Arctic oceans and the Gulf of Mexico receive each its tribute. Here is a land of striking scenery.

  George Bird Grinnell

  Lying, Ocean, Sea

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• I have great faith in the people of Montana; they can't be bought.

  Jon Tester

  People, Great Faith

  "Sen. Jon Tester Decries Citizens United's Impact In Montana, Nationally". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. January 30, 2012.

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• The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.

  Al Pacino

  Order, Giving, Balls

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