Top 282 Alaska Quotes & Sayings

One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.

Alaska itself is an unusual state.

But why Alaska?' I asked her. 'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means 'that which the sea breaks against,' and I love that. But at the time, I just saw Alaska up there. And it was big, just like I wanted to be.

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

This one's for Alaska Young!

They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

After the age of seven, I began living between my dad in Alaska and my mother in Baltimore. Every three or four months, I would fly the 5,000 miles between the two. And having grown up in Alaska, Baltimore was astonishing.

I try to keep Alaska fresh by doing laundry and bathing at least once a month.

This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.

To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Nobody is accidentally in Alaska. The people who are in Alaska are there because they choose to be, so they've sort of got a real frontier ethic. The people are incredibly friendly, interesting, smart people - but they also stay out of each other's business.

I've never been to a beach party before. We have gravel-pit parties in Alaska.

Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.

We still have billions of barrels in Alaska that sit untapped. There are abundant reserves offshore in the lower 48.

Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled there, including an older couple bound together by resilient love. Eowyn Ivey's poignant debut novel grabbed me from the very first pages and made me wish we had more genre-defying Alaska novels like this one. Inspired by a fairy tale, it nonetheless contains more depth and truth than so many books set in this land of extremes.

I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news. Alaska isn't a foreign country.

What I am delivering to Alaska is a future that holds hope and opportunity for jobs, for people in this state.

Mrs. Palin has neither pushed for creationism in Alaska schools nor moved to ban a single book in Wasilla.

Now how about this, ladies and gentlemen? The Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has announced she is stepping down. She will no longer be the Governor of Alaska. First thing, she woke up and went out on her porch and waved goodbye to Russia.

I grew up in the Episcopal Church in Alaska, but my belief was superficial and flimsy.

There's no doubt 'normal' is changing - spring actually came a month early in Alaska, for example, and we had to stop filming.

What is good for Alaska is good for the country. Transferring power from the federal government to the states provides opportunity to all states, not just Alaska.

Pretty much everywhere we went we had crazy weather. I think Russia was probably one of the toughest places for us weatherwise, but even Alaska, the last three years have been somewhat subpar when you look at historically how Alaska can shape up.

I've been under the spell of the North ever since my childhood in Alaska. More and more, I've been returning to Alaska, and sometimes my adventures inspire a story.

She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

The whole band is from Alaska. It's like growing up anywhere else.

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land boundary that we have with - Canada. We have trade missions back and forth. We - we do - it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America where - where do they go? It's Alaska.

When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.

As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you have eight functioning brain cells." "Studies show that Marijuana is better for your health than those cigarettes," Hank said. Alaska swallowed a mouthful of fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew a smoke at Hank. "I may die young," she said. "But at least I'll die smart. Now, back to tangents.

I am working for Alaska's best interests.

We grew up in Alaska and will rep The North Face all day long.

What I miss most about living in Alaska is the fishing.

Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.

The main rhythmic loop in 'Alaska' is me just patting on my jeans.

Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.

We've been helping you out in Alaska in considerable ways, and you're walking away from the responsibility, and we're not going to allow that.

The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.

I've always heard that heli-skiing in Alaska is amazing. I would love to be able to do that at some point in my life.

When there is this dip in the jet stream that brings cold to the East, there's usually a countervailing loop that takes warm air into Alaska or the Arctic.

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.

I titled it 'Alaska' because the song sort of represents everything that happened in my life surrounding a hiking trip I took for a month in Alaska.

There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.

What people unfortunately relate to when they think of Alaska oil was when the Exxon Valdez went aground because of a captain that was drunk. But when you look to how we have been safely producing and moving Alaska's oil for decades, it is a track record that is enviable.

With the most powerful binoculars, I cannot see Alaska.

Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.

Growing up, the only acts that came to us in Alaska were the big ones. The Mariah Careys.

The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.

I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps.

I missed that question on Alaska. I hear they want to make it a state now.

Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.

I think we should drill up in Alaska.

Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.

My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.

'Looking For Alaska' by John Green is a very great book. I feel like every teenage girl says John Green's 'Fault In Our Stars,' but 'Looking For Alaska' is better.

That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up.

The executive orders. Barack Obama is doing it again with this ban that he thinks is in perpetuity on offshore drilling in the Atlantic Ocean and north of Alaska. It's bad what Obama's trying to do, and I know exactly what he is doing with this. But the first thing is, the areas that Obama has, by executive order, declared off-limits are areas nobody wants to drill in anyway. There are no plans to drill off the coast, the East Coast of the country out in the Atlantic, and there are no plans to drill north of Alaska in the Arctic Circle.

I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the '70s, we found it.