Wyoming Quotes

• Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.

  Dave Freudenthal

  Land, Water, Wildlife

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• Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Summer, Spring, June

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• One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Museums, Eight, Goal

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• When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.

  Dick Cheney

  Important, Three, Lasts

  Cheney-Edwards Debate, www.cbsnews.com. October 5, 2004.

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• Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Summer, Jobs, Museums

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• My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

  Joely Fisher

  Mom, Years, Events

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

  Mary Cheney

  Retail, Done, Levels

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• I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.

  Lou Reed

  Age, Raises, Ripe

  "Lou Reed v Lester Bangs: a classic interview from the vaults" by Lester Bangs, www.theguardian.com. November 08, 2011.

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• At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.

  Jack Kerouac

  Lonely, Stars, Home

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.291, Penguin

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• You know what amazes me about UFO's? They never land at the White House. They always land at laramie, Wyoming. Thiry miles out, where they're seen by one farmer.

  Larry King

  Land, White, House

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• My favorite place in the whole world is Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

  Miguel Ferrer

  Favorite Places, World, My Favorite

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils, agates, and carcasses in every stage of decay. Though it was water that initially shaped the state, wind is the meticulous gardener, raising dust and pruning the sage.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Dust, Wind, Space

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• We have seen a man dragged to death in Texas simply because he was black. A young man murdered in Wyoming simply because he was gay. In the last year alone, we've seen the shootings of African Americans, Asian Americans, and Jewish children simply because of who they were. This is not the American way. We must draw the line. Without delay, we must pass the Hate Crimes Prevention Act and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. And we should reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Hate, Gay

  "The full speech: part two", www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2000.

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• I found while driving in Wyoming that wearing a stetson and driving a beat-up pickup meant you could go as fast as you like, while the police picked up Californian winnebagos that went one mph over 55. After all, they wanted to bring money into the state, not merely circulate it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mph, Police, Driving

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• In 1998, in Laramie, Wyoming, two guys beat up Matthew Shepard and left him on the side of the road hanging on the fence to die. They killed him, because Matthew Shepard was gay. They killed him, because Matthew Shepard was gay? They killed him.

  Christopher Titus

  Gay, Two, Guy

  "Titus / Tommy's Not Gay". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• As children, we had access to all the open space imaginable. We would set up camps in rural Utah where the Tempest Company was at work laying pipe. We spent time around the West in Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Colorado. Wild beautiful places. Now, many of these natural places have disappeared under the press of development.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Children, Space

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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• Imposing excessive new regulations, or closing coal-fired power plants, would produce few health or environmental benefits. But it would exact huge costs on society - and bring factories, offices and economies to a screeching halt in states that are 80-98% dependent on coal: Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.

  Paul Driessen

  Virginia, Ohio, Utah

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• I, for one, despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I lived there for a year. I've seen it. And the same for Wyoming, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. They all have parts of their state where that really matters. And I think that home-state constituency issue is a pretty constant one. And I think the problem of extreme lobbying by the corporate sector, which runs about $30-to-$1 compared to everybody else in the world, and the constituent aspect combines to give those industries a consistent advantage.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Running, Country, Home

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

  Sadie Jones

  Horse, Children, Boys

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• I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak: Hyalite Peak in Montana. It was a 15-mile hike to get to the top of that, round-trip - thankfully, she said yes.

  Steve Daines

  Mountain Peaks, Climbing, Wife

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• As he was growing up, his family moved and lived in a number of different places in Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. I didn't know then that moving around so much should have been a problem, so it wasn't.

  F. Burton Howard

  Life, Growing Up, Moving

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• What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay?

  Nikki Giovanni

  Gay, Men, Boys

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• The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy. World wind generating capacity grew from 7,600 megawatts in 1997 to 9,600 in 1998, an expansion of 26 percent. At a national level, Germany led the way, adding 790 megawatts of capacity, followed by Spain with 380 megawatts, and the United States with 226 megawatts. In the past, U.S. wind generating capacity was concentrated in California, but in 1998, wind farms began generating electricity in Minnesota, Oregon, and Wyoming, broadening the new industry's geographical base.

  Lester R. Brown

  Past, Oregon, California

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• From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on fillers, as if what we have, what we are, is not enough. We have a cultural tendency toward denial, but being affluent, we strangle ourselves with what we can buy. We gave only to look at the houses we build to see how we build *against* space, the way we drink against pain and loneliness. We fill up space as if it were a pie shell, with things whose opacity further obstructs our ability to see what is already there.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Pain, Loneliness, Pie

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• Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine cone You never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you. Once a friend gave me A small pine cone- One of a few He found in the scat Of a grizzly In Utah maybe, Or Wyoming. I took it home And did what I supposed He was sure I would do- I ate it, Thinking How it had traveled Through that rough And holy body. It was crisp and sweet. It was almost a prayer Without words. My gratitude, Tom Dancer, For this gift of the world I adore so much And want to belong to. And thank you too, great bear

  Mary Oliver

  Gratitude, Sweet, Prayer

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