Alaska Quote by Robert W. Service Download Open image ““A half-dead thing in a stark dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold.”” — Robert W. Service ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alaska Gold Loneliness
“He was a thread of gold running straight into the woof of a carpet woven by a madman.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Gold is cold, and men who possess much of it are infected with its chill.” — S.M. Carrière Copy Share Image
“I wouldn’t be surprised if in fifty years’ time we have not totally exhausted the gold content of the earth!” — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“Silver’s sweet and gold’s our mother, but once you’re dead they’re worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“more brave in despising gold as yet undiscovered, and so best situated while hidden in the earth, than in forcing it out for the… — Horace Copy Share Image
“They wonder much to hear that gold which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I keep collecting books I know I'll never, never read; My wife and daughter tell me so, And yet I never heed. "Please make… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
“The Call of the Wild They have cradled you in custom, they have primed you with their preaching, They have soaked you in convention… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard. — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
When children's children shall talk of War as a madness that may not be; When we thank our God for our grief today, and… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods. — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive. — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code. — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race. — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster; There's hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so! As on we tramped… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars. — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
“A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold; While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Grief is like an ocean. It comes in waves - some waves are bigger than others and you cannot prepare for it.” — Summer Lane Copy Share Image
There's no doubt 'normal' is changing - spring actually came a month early in Alaska, for example, and we had to stop filming. — Travis Rice Copy Share Image
Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia,… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Like any traveler, I'm always looking for those experiences that are almost unique to any place, and watching films around Alaska of the skies… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney understands the importance of Alaska as a leader in our country's energy production and I look forward to working with him on… — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics was on… — Brian Boitano Copy Share Image
