quotes about Colorado
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We are on the Colorado...that means something more to me than thoughts of electrical power or a harnessed river.
-- Barry Goldwater -
Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire world's proven oil reserves!
-- Bob Beauprez -
Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.
-- Bob Beauprez -
I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.
-- Charles Frazier -
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Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race
-- Christopher McDougall -
I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.
-- Connie Willis -
I learnt to drive at around eleven years old. In an old jeep on a field in Colorado. There were lots of ditches. I could barely see over the steering wheel.
-- David Lauren -
Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.
-- Gale Norton -
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I had my house converted to the Colorado altitude, so I am always above sea level,
-- Gilbert Arenas -
I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.
-- James MacArthur -
Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
-- Joan Van Ark -
Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. Its somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
-- Joe Cocker -
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We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth weve already been seeing in Colorado continue.
-- John Hickenlooper -
You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.
-- John Hickenlooper -
It's easier for me to go to Russia and train with top coaches and choreographers there than go to Colorado Springs and train with 14 of my competitors.
-- Johnny Weir -
I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!
-- Karlie Kloss -
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If 'extreme' means that I am unwilling to go to Washington, D.C., and do what President Obama tells me, then so be it. But I am certainly not going to Washington, D.C. to represent the interests of D.C. I'm going there to represent Colorado values.
-- Ken BuckSource : "Interview with Colorado Senate Candidate Ken Buck". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 11, 2010.
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I'm proud that Colorado delivered a victory to Barack Obama in 2008 and we will do so again in 2012.
-- Ken SalazarSource : "Coloradans At DNC: Jared Polis, Ken Salazar, Ryan Case And Maria Ciano Speak During Opening Night". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 05, 2012.
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Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger.
-- Ken Salazar -
The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.
-- Kent Hovind -
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In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasnt like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
-- Lance Henriksen -
I graduated from college in Ohio and bummed around for a while, and then I joined VISTA, which was a domestic Peace Corps kind of thing, and they sent me to Colorado.
-- Mojo NixonSource : Interview with Jeff Stratton, www.avclub.com. August 25, 1999.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
-- Pam Grier -
If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.
-- Pete CoorsSource : "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2004.
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I became a country music fan in 1990 when I moved to Colorado. It was my first exposure to it because I'm from a city. I've been a fan of country music ever since.
-- Ricky Schroder -
You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.
-- Roy Romer -
I ended up getting drafted by the Colorado Rockies on June 8, 2010 and the next day, my dad passed away, in June 9, 2010. So I'm at the biggest high of my life on June 8th. And the next day, June 9th, he's gone.
-- Russell Wilson -
I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks.
-- Sheryl Lee -
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Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.
-- Sidney Altman -
I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.
-- Trey Parker -
You don't need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado.
-- Trey Parker -
The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.
-- Yvon Chouinard -
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A new report says that last year Colorado collected $44 million in ***** taxes. Unfortunately, they can't remember where they put it.
-- Conan O'Brien -
There was this one lady in Colorado who made us something ceramic, where it could have been either a ring holder or a bowl cleaner. She was just like, "Here you go." And we were both like, "Oh my god! Thank yoooou!"
-- Ilana Glazer -
When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.
-- Brad Lidge -
I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas
-- Paul Taylor -
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Louisville, Colorado, which was just voted by CNN and Money magazine as the best place to live, is a veritable Whitopia that is unaffected by the housing crisis and even the severe recession. You look at the best places to live, according to Money's 2009 list, and 9 of the 10 are Whitopias.
-- Richard BenjaminSource : "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.