Dakota Quotes

82 Dakota quotes by 61 unique authors

In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every… — Dick Gephardt
I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love… — Gail Collins
I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with… — Bob Feller
North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand? — Bobby Heenan
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college. — Hubert H. Humphrey
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war… — George McGovern
My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and… — Michelle Pfeiffer
When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh. — Lawrence Welk
Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a… — Dave Barry
I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like… — Charlie Chaplin
But what Dakota most enjoyed about the beginning of winter was the crispness of the air (that practically demanded the wearing of knits) and the… — Kate Jacobs
About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have… — Chuck Palahniuk
Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal. — Jeremy Clarkson
But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on… — Sarah Vowell
I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant. — Nora Roberts
Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other." "So… — Richelle Mead
To the stupidity of men, " Dakota said, raising a glass. "And my brother, who is their king. — Susan Mallery
She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4. — Mark Millar
I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that. — Phil Jackson
Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake,… — Winona LaDuke
The greatest threats to North Dakota are policies coming out of Washington, D.C. I see it every day and feel a sense of responsibility to… — Kevin Cramer
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic was full of old, old books . . . In… — William H. Gass
ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, he is called the Washoe Canary, in Dakota, the… — Ambrose Bierce
If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and… — Bill Janklow

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