Northwest Quotes
46 quotes by 44 authors
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Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific…
— Bruce Babbitt
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We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the…
— Melinda Gates
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Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.
— William Vaughn Moody
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There are more than 100 first- and second- hand witnesses to the retrieval of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and at least four extraterrestrial bodies from a…
— Steven M. Greer
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We’ll all say that. We’ll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it’s all some kind of…
— Kim Stanley
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He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush, was one of the great…
— Sebastian Barry
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It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region…
— Greg Walden
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In addition to hydropower, Oregon and the Northwest have pioneering companies leading the way in environmentally friendly energy technology.
— Greg Walden
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About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small…
— James A. Michener
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In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never…
— John L. Phillips
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If some of our teenage thrill seekers really want to go out and get a thrill, let them go up into the Northwest and tangle…
— Fred Bear
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A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes…
— Elizabeth Cunningham
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Yesterday, I tried to call Northwest Airlines' customer-service line over a couple of hours. I couldn't get through. The recording said, "Due to a high…
— Jay Nordlinger
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The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.
— Bruce Babbitt
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The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild…
— Timothy Egan
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My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led…
— Kurt Russell
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Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a…
— Don Young
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House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.
— Nancy Johnson
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Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner…
— Robert Hunter
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I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense,…
— Carrie Brownstein
Who Wrote These Northwest Quotes
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