Blood Quote by Mat Kearney

My wife and I drove across America following the Oregon Trail, which the pioneers once passed along.

— Sandi Toksvig

“The Northwest is essentially a national domain; it is fitting that it should be, as it is, not only by position but by feeling,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Being from Oregon, it's part of who I am.

— Mat Kearney

I like the whole Pacific Northwest.

— Johann Johannsson

I'm from Miami, and the Pacific Northwest is just, the visualness of it, was so extremely different than Miami, where I came from... Flat…

— Kelly Reichardt

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

— Carrie Brownstein

My people came from western Tennessee and western Kentucky.

— Rodney Crowell

Oregon is an inspiration. Whether you come to it, or are born to it, you become entranced by our state's beauty, the opportunity she…

— Tom McCall

I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having…

— Rachel Kushner

I'm from Oakland and San Francisco, so I feel like the Pacific Northwest starts there and goes north - so, it's home to me.

— Colin Trevorrow

I spent a lot of time growing up in Oregon after I left California. Spent a lot of time in the woods.

— Sam Elliott

Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense…

— Hilarie Burton