Top 233 Arctic Quotes & Sayings

I love bands like the Arctic Monkeys and The Smiths, and I'm working on my own music.

To wear the arctic fox you have to kill it.

Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling is bad public policy that has no place in the budget process,. The Budget Committee needs to leave drilling in the Arctic Refuge behind and focus on crafting this year's budget package.

It is important that we understand the importance of the Arctic, stop the process of destruction, and protect it.

I love the Arctic Monkeys!

We are marking the anniversary of the Arctic convoys.We really do consider members of the Arctic convoy to be heroes. This is true. I am not saying this as a fashion of speech.

that arctic blast you're feeling? it's the chill coming off my cold shoulder

Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure and quite hard. And meridians. Isn't that pretty? We're going to fly along them, faster than the light can follow us... Time won't be able to catch us.

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.

O proudly name their names who bravely sail| To seek brave lost in Arctic snows and seas!

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.

What people don't understand about the Arctic is that this isn't just about those other people, those Eskimos that have nothing to do with us. The Arctic drives the climate of the whole globe.

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.

Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.

You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.

Scientists had said, "If you keep burning coal and gas and oil, you will melt the Arctic." And then the Arctic melted just as they had predicted. Did Shell Oil look at the melt and say, "Huh, maybe we should go into the solar-panel business instead?" No, Shell Oil looked at that and said, "Oh, well, now that it's melted it will be easier to drill for more oil up there." That's enough to make you doubt about the big brain being a good adaptation.

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.

This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.

The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It's not just a cost to the people who live there. It's a cost to all people everywhere.

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

You know how they say, 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?' What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.

For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.

We were working under very harsh conditions on 'Zero Kelvin.' We were up there in the Arctic, closer to the North Pole than to a hospital. Sometimes you had to sleep in small Arctic tents with guns to protect yourself from polar bears and stuff.

The Arctic is going to be an area of intense interest. Russia has the longest coastline in the world with the Arctic.

In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"

Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.

For as long as I can remember, I have loved snow and ice. As a result, I have spent most of my life exploring the Arctic region. These journeys have brought such joy and beauty to my life that I have dedicated myself to helping preserve these wonderful frozen places. More than ever before, I am driven to share my passion for the Arctic, a region whose health and stability have far-reaching consequences for us all.

A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

The arctic loneliness of age.

I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing!

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.

I really like the Gorillaz and Arctic Monkeys.

By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

It's a great life, and Margaret and I are going to stay put above the Arctic Circle where we're happy.

Tundra is a huge, forever frozen wetland covering the entire coast of the Arctic Ocean.

I draw great comfort from remoteness and wildness. I suppose that is why I have always felt the lure of the Arctic so acutely.

Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.

Melting permafrost in Greenland and the Arctic tundra is releasing vast amounts of methane, a potent climate-altering gas.

In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"

I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys; also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune.

It will not be a surprise to you to learn I'm more interested in the future of the Arctic Circle than the future of the Arctic Monkeys.

Russia's increased Arctic presence. The Arctic has vast natural resources and security value, and Russia is drastically increasing its footprint in the region.

The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.

I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.

The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.

There might be children in Somalia or the Arctic who have never heard of 'Hamlet' or the 'Great Gatsby.' But you can bet they know 'Tarzan.'

In Alaska, the beaches are slumping so much, people are having to move houses. In Tuktoyaktuk, the land is starting to go under water. The glaciers are melting and the permafrost is melting. There are new species of birds and fish and insects showing up. The Arctic is a barometer for the health of the world. If you want to know how healthy the world is, come to the Arctic and feel its pulse.

Arctic Monkeys are actually one of my favourite bands going, which is really weird cos I went to school and college with them.

A melting Arctic creates a more permissive environment for Russia and China to seize territory.

The Arctic Ocean is completely unprotected, so technically, people can do with it whatever they like.

The Arctic is the planet's air conditioner and it's starting to break down.

The reality is that my wife would be pretty upset if I went and bought a plot of land somewhere in Outer Mongolia or the Arctic Circle!

The close relationships between the abrupt ups and downs of solar activity and of temperature that I have identified occur locally in coastal Greenland; regionally in the Arctic Pacific and north Atlantic; and hemispherically for the whole circum-Arctic, suggesting that changes in solar activity drive Arctic and perhaps even global climate.

For instance, the blood of hibernating arctic squirrels may supercool to minus 3 degrees, when it would normally congeal. The supercooled blood still flows, since it remains a liquid, but the slightest disturbance will cause it to freeze, killing the squirrel; therefore, you should not disturb hibernating arctic squirrels.

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.

Going to the Arctic was immense for me.

In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.