Top 143 Dakota Quotes & Sayings

I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.

To the stupidity of men, " Dakota said, raising a glass. "And my brother, who is their king.

Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake, Ponemah, Brookston in Minnesota, and Manderson, Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community.

Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.

Even at North Dakota State, football is a big deal.

Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.

Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.

Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities‚ but the White Earth reservation villages‚ and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake‚ Ponemah‚ Brookston in Minnesota‚ and Manderson‚ Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community.

Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal.

A casino in South Dakota was robbed by a man dressed as a mummy. The police described the suspect as anywhere between 25 and 8,000 years old.

She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.

We have the resources and technology to produce more energy than we consume and break our long-standing dependence on foreign sources of oil. All we need is the will. In fact, there's a path to follow, one that North Dakota blazed over the last decade by building a comprehensive energy plan we called Empower North Dakota.

My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsible and major in something pragmatic.

One of the key things that we did at Bank of North Dakota that I worked to try to do with our state economic development is make sure we are customer-service oriented.

Keystone will deliver 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada, North Dakota, and Montana to Gulf Coast refineries.

I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.

Coming from a country that's rapidly changing, I love the idea of a place like South Dakota where nothing has really changed.

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

I remember the first time Dakota asked me for fashion advice about what to put with what. I was like, 'My big sister is asking me?'

In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.

I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.

Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost. "Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets?

Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.

Playing football in Fargo has a total big-time feel. Everyone says it's FCS and it's a smaller school, but in Fargo, North Dakota, and in the state of North Dakota, NDSU football is the real deal.

Coming from a small South Dakota school, it was a different route to get to the NFL. I went from South Dakota State to the World League of American Football with the Amsterdam Admirals, and fortunately I did well enough there that the New England Patriots decided to sign me and give me a chance.

I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

I met my wife in South Dakota.

Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress.

My favorite days off on the road are typically nowhere, like Bismarck, North Dakota, and you find yourself in a mall, and you're like, 'This is awesome!'

I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

We should show Washington how we do it in North Dakota. I'm running to stop the over-regulating of our economy and start growing it.

South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.

Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.

Jesus is not a candle. A company in South Dakota is selling candles with the scent of Jesus. You light one and your friends says, Christ, what's that smell?

You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

I'm in the camp that says that if you're to the right of South Dakota on anything, you should use that as a moment to recalibrate your core values.

My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

I remember the first time Dakota asked me for fashion advice about what to put with what. I was like, My big sister is asking me?

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

The deal we made was that if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota - that's what they wanted, the invitation - if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota, he would guarantee South Dakota 400 Citibank jobs.

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.

Babies are born bow-legged in South Dakota. By the age of 12, they can purchase guns. At 14, they can take their driving test. Fortunately, since the geographical area of South Dakota can accommodate both France and Germany, but has a population of only 750,000, the chances of hitting anything are pretty slim.

My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.

Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle.

I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.

I'm a South Dakota kid.

South Dakota was a place where you could take risks. You could break barriers and get away with it.

North Dakota is a great state. Everybody is real supportive up there. I couldn't ask for a better place to call home.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York! And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House, Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!

I go to South Dakota for ceremonies when I have the time. And when you learn what the Indian peoples have gone through to hold onto their culture and traditions... wow, it's an amazing story.

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.

The greatest threats to North Dakota are policies coming out of Washington, D.C. I see it every day and feel a sense of responsibility to do something about it.