Best Dakota Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Sure, scars can be painfull to look at, reminding you where you've been, but they also remind you of how far you've come.”

Action Scars Dakota Coma Jack Ali Aria Jared Comatose Ella Charis

Author:GirlDrawsManga

“You all know from past experiences that the white man only sees the bad that our people do to them. They are blind to their own indiscretions.”

Minnesota Native Americans Dakota Suland

Book:Suland

Source: Suland

“The loss of that oral tradition and the breakdown of communication between generations had set my family adrift, floating aimlessly without history and all its accumulated experience to guide us. We need context, we need myths, we need family legends in order to see the invisible legacy that follows us, that tells us who we are.”

Family History Myth Dakota

Author:Diane Wilson

“Who says you’ll get hurt again?” I pouted. “Have you met you?” “Right.”

Conversation Na Dakota Luka

Book:Relish

Source: Relish

“That uncivilized heathen nations should first be civilized, and then Christianized, is a sentiment of the past. Now it is coming more and more to be acknowledged, that the Bible is the great civilizer of the nations.”

Missionary Dakota

Book:Tah Koo Wah Kan; Or, the Gospel Among the Dakotas

Source: Tah Koo Wah Kan; Or, the Gospel Among the Dakotas

“The city no longer appeals to me for the cultural experiences and possessions I might acquire there, but because its population is less homogeneous than Plains society. Its holiness is to be found in being open to humanity in all its diversity. And the western Plains now seem bountiful in their emptiness, offering solitude and room to grow”

Dakota

Book:Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

Source: Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

“We ended up in North Dakota Although my heart's in Mexico...”

Mexico Dakota Michale Valentine

Author:Brandon Flowers

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

Young Dakota

Author:Jodie Foster

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

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Author:Bob Dylan

“It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films, loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well, because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well; she's so professional and hardworking.”

Wells Different Film Energy Grows Growing Up Really Cool Hardworking Dakota

Author:Kaya Scodelario

“Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs.”

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Author:John Thune

“I met my wife in South Dakota.”

Wife Mets South My Wife Dakota South Dakota

Author:George McGovern

“Becca Gardner is wonderful as the good-hearted little Griff who refuses to be daunted by all the heart-ache and resentment on dad's ranch and this young actress proves there's another young child actress in Hollywood besides Dakota Fanning.”

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Author:Richard Roeper

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

Has Beens Said President Dakota North Dakota

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't advise you to give those people too much credit for generosity. There is not a farmer in any State in the West that wouldn't be glad to give him a farm if he will paint it, fix up the fences and keep up the series of mortgages that are on it. And if you think Coolidge ain't smart, you just watch him not take it.”

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Author:Will Rogers

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

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Author:Bill Kurtis

“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.”

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Author:Dick Gephardt

“What our family has done is participate in the farm programs. And so the farm programs I think essentially almost every farmer in South Dakota has participated in those, and they haven't been bailouts, they have been programs that the United States has put forward for farmers to participate in.”

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Author:Kristi Noem

“I say to my colleague from New York that if someone who has a concealed carry permit... in the State of South Dakota that goes to New York and is in Central Park - Central Park is a much safer place.”

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Author:John Thune

“That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active faith; it says, "I believe there is no God." But I don't know what I believe. I was brought up a Lutheran in Jamestown, North Dakota. I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over. I would welcome that.”

“It's hard to go. It's scary and lonely...and half the time you'll be wondering why the hell you're in Cincinnati or Austin or North Dakota or Mongolia or wherever your melodious little finger-plucking heinie takes you. There will be boondoggles and discombobulated days, freaked-out nights and metaphorical flat tires. But it will be soul-smashingly beautiful... It will open up your life.”

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Author:Cheryl Strayed

“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.”

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Author:Kevin Cramer

“First of all, we have exactly the opposite type of audiences, for obvious reasons. So the competition is not going to be between the movies. I wish Dakota the best, not only because of this movie. I know the expectations of these movies are enormous but we know-every member of the family, brother, sister, real father-that she's a good actress.””

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Author:Antonio Banderas

“I would love to work with Marion Cotillard and my sister! I've never worked with Dakota before in a movie. It'd be so cool to be on screen interacting with each other one day. It will happen, I'm just not sure when.”

Happens One Day Screens Not Sure My Sister Interacting Dakota

Author:Elle Fanning

“I was 12 when I did 'Super 8,' and when Dakota was 12, she did 'War of the Worlds.' Steven Spielberg was involved with both movies, so we both worked with Steven when we were 12.”

World War Involved War Of The Worlds Dakota

Author:Elle Fanning

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

Watches Growing Up Growing Hockey Dakota North Dakota

Author:Phil Jackson

“My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.”

Wells Mother Father Havens Areas West South British Indian Montana Dakota South Dakota West Indies

Author:Richie Havens

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

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Author:Bobby Heenan

“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.”

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Author:Craig Ferguson

“My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning."”

Said Book Like You Prose Publishers Dakota Mileage

Author:Tao Lin

“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.”

Ifs Writing Looks Able Lasts House Forget Novel South Winter Last Time Childbirth Dakota South Dakota Remodeling

Book:Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch

Source: Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch

“By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.”

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Author:Tim Johnson

“Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.”

Faces Wonder Teach Dying Desert Irony Isolation Stillness Dakota

Book:Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

Source: Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

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

World Firsts South Chamber Sensory Deprivation Dakota South Dakota Sensory Deprivation

Author:Bill Bryson

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

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Author:Travis Hafner

“I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.”

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Author:George McGovern

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

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Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“I liked John a lot. He was the one I really got on with the most. We weren't buddy-buddies but we were always friendly. But after the Beatles and the Stones stopped playing clubs, we didn't see each other that much until he separated from Yoko, around 1974. We got really friendly again. And when he went back with Yoko, he went into hibernation ... when I went to visit someone in the Dakota, I'd leave him a note saying: 'I live next door: I know you don't want to see anyone, but if you do, please call.' He never did.”

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Author:Mick Jagger

“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?”

Light Jesus Christ Company South Smell Selling Candle Scent Dakota South Dakota

Book:New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer

Source: New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer

“Were I to stop oil production, we`d have to import it from Iraq and from Caracas, Venezuela or from North Dakota where the environmental standards are much lower, on trains that have already proven themselves unsafe, or by more ships that are causing significant pollution in the world. It`s just really dumb.”

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Author:Jerry Brown

“My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.”

Firsts Fall South Joints Dakota South Dakota

Author:Tommy Bolin

“Imposing excessive new regulations, or closing coal-fired power plants, would produce few health or environmental benefits. But it would exact huge costs on society - and bring factories, offices and economies to a screeching halt in states that are 80-98% dependent on coal: Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.”

“We have had some great shows this summer, the Jammin Against the Darkness event was pretty incredible and it was good to see everyone at the festivals. Today we head to South Dakota for the start of the tour with Falling Up, The Wedding and Mainstay.”

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Author:John Reuben Zappin

“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.”

“I keep a daily journal of whatever weird thought comes into my mind, like when I had a dream I was in North Dakota in the middle of a blizzard and for some reason the Egyptian pyramids were there, too - that I was able to shuffle into the book.”

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Author:Dan Chaon

“The environmental catastrophes we're presently seeing are considered "normal" though they're horrific. Fracking has made drinking water flammable, families are dying from planned lead poisoning in Flint, Michigan, mountaintop removal is killing families throughout Appalachia, and oil/mining companies continue to denigrate Native American and indigenous rights throughout the world (see North Dakota Pipeline presently). This is horrific - and yet we somehow consider it normal.”

“I know that there is a difference of opinion, but we stand united with the Standing Rock Nation in wanting the most highly militarized blockade in North Dakota history to be lifted, because it's functioning as a successful economic sanction.”

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Author:Chase Iron Eyes

“Other than areas of high-tech, fracking is probably one of the largest areas where concentrated growth in America's economy is taking place. There are oil booms in the Dakotas, in North Dakota. They are having to build entire cities, towns, to house employees showing up to work in fracking. The left is trying to shut it down under some claim that it destroys the environment. Natural gas and oil, of course, are the evil twins of opposition to the mainstream environmentalist wacko movement.”

“When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.”

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Author:George McGovern

“My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.”

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Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

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