Colorado Quotes

It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the leaves on the Chinese elms. Autumns reward western Kansas for the evils at the remaining seasons impose: winter`s rough Colorado winds and hip-high, sheep slaughtering snows; the slushes and the strange land fogs of spring; and summer, when even crows seek the puny shade, and the tawny infinitude of wheatstalks bristle, blaze

- Truman Capote

(Rumor mill -- According to published reports, the Avalanche has reportedly talked to Tampa Bay about a deal that would send Colorado defenseman Bob Boughner to the Lightning. ... Anaheim`s Sergei Fedorov has missed two games with a groin injury, and when he might be healthy enough to return to lineup remains a mystery to everyone, including Fedorov himself.) We`re hoping its day to day, ... but in my mind, it`s not really a truthful assessment because it`s really hard to predict.

- Sergei Fedorov

A different kind of family, I guess. Mom went to nursing school after having five kids, and Dad is a road construction foreman. Pretty cool people. I guess you call them hippies. They met at a music festival in Colorado. Dad was leaning against a tree, playing a flute, and Mom walked by and caught his eye. That`s the way they tell the story.

- Hannah Teter

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

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

- Pam Grier

In fact I have a place in Colorado, and I would make the drive back here, and I would always drive, if I could, I preferred being in that countryside.

- Keith Carradine

Chacon came in and he had been struggling in Colorado. He got a new chance, got to pitch for a team that`s in playoff contention, so it was a good change for him. Then he started throwing the ball great, had some success and felt better about himself. It just kept building.

- Mike Mussina

This legislation would act as a disincentive for insurers to innovate and create new insurance programs. In addition this bill could hurt small carriers in the market. There are over 200 insurers that write property and casualty insurance in Colorado and the vast majority of them are smaller companies. These restrictions to use only Colorado data could make it difficult for them to price their product competitively in our state.

- Kelly Campbell

This type of legislation, which leaves consumers with no choices of coverage and higher rates, would have sent Colorado back down the slippery slope of no-fault auto insurance.

- Kelly Campbell

I realized later on that a lot of times I`d go back to Colorado to hide from all the mayhem in San Francisco so I could get songs written.

- Jello Biafra

I felt real good and thought I could get three more outs, ... I have been feeling good the last five starts. Even in Colorado, I felt I was throwing the ball well.

- Ben Sheets

I felt that I`ve thrown as well as I ever did over the last two months, except for the Colorado debacle.

- Ben Sheets

The ball moves different here than in Colorado,

- Jeff Weaver

We`ve got the critical mass of urban dwellers for them, with all the new building and conversions we`ve had. ... But with their popularity, their trading ring would be 60 or 70 miles, which would include Boulder and Colorado Springs.

- Larry Black

The Colorado River is extremely important to the state of Arizona. When other states begin to make noises about threatening Arizona`s supply, I think the whole state needs to get involved.

- John Sullivan

Being from Colorado, a lot of my friends are up there. It`s going to be nice to go up there again. The last time I played up there, we lost. We get a second crack at it. We just have to go up there, play a great game and come out on top.

- Jason Brown

We do retain it, but it`s being nibbled away. We have the governors of Colorado, Florida and New Mexico blowing into California and meeting with executives of medium-sized space-related businesses and doing everything they can to get them to move. That`s the kind of focus we don`t have in California.

- Eric Daniels

This article reaffirms the fact that there is a shortage of drilling rigs especially in Colorado and we are in a position to help satisfy that demand.

- David Alexander

I`m told his knee is fine. He struggled a bit in his last year at Colorado. With the style we`re going to play and the rules, he can play a number of years after this year. It`s up to Teemu. I made it clear to his agent we`re certainly not looking at this as a one-year thing.

- Brian Burke

The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven`t got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next.

- Christo

The rest of the globe that has 88% of the tropical storms hasn`t changed, ... If I`m proven wrong, I will jump off the highest peak in Colorado.

- William Gray

There is no question that county and state dollars will have to be used. It`s just hard to imagine that the state of Colorado can come up with $30 (million) or $40 million.

- Beth Miller

I graduated from Yale in 1969, from the University of Florida Law School in 1974, and passed the Colorado bar and was admitted in 1975.

- Frank Shorter

I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas.

- Paul Taylor

The proposed new brand name draws on the western heritage of the Colorado Front Range community, the company`s employees and our institution.

- Guy Gibson

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.

- Alan Magnani

Growing up in Denver, I`m sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

- Alex Grobler

As long as there`s land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

- Alex Hertenstein

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.

- Alison Lewis

We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we`ve already been seeing in Colorado continue.

- Alison Lewis

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.

- Allen Okamoto

Enrollment in Colorado is expected to expand about 25 percent in seven years. It`s very difficult to find those additional funds. Therefore, I think you`re probably going to have increased pressure on tuition.

- Andre Parker

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.

- Andre Parker

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

- Andrew Gilbert

Montana, Colorado, Wyoming. Some damned place,

- Angel Anderson

Seeing how much people love Colorado was one of the most incredible, gratifying aspects of my career,

- Angie Suffridge

He saw a lot of the country, but mostly he saw a lot of Colorado. He saw and learned more about places in Colorado in his short lifetime than most people ever do.

- Angie Suffridge

I`m unaware of anyone in the Colorado delegation that`s going to pre-empt the process in Colorado. This is not just a Pueblo issue. This decision belongs to the people of Colorado.

- Ann Holtz

It can be that some people decide that I will spend my life in Florence, Colorado,

- Ann Ulrich

Denver? Not Phoenix? ... Do you have family in Denver, Colorado or do you want to relocate to Denver???

- Anna Tatishvili

We are under the belief that that is in fact stolen and additionally we found a stolen engine, frame and other parts was from a stolen 2005 Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck that was reported stolen on May 22, 2005, out of the city of Victorville.

- Anne Miller

Many of them came from our traditionally strong sources of guests. If people used to live in Chicago and always wanted to take a dude ranch vacation, and now they live in Colorado, they`re still going to want to take a dude ranch vacation.

- Anoumone Kittirath

Outside of that injury-plagued year in Colorado, he`d been completely healthy for the two years before that. So I think with some of the new rules you`ll be seeing this year, he`ll be right back where he was. People tend to think because he`s been such a prominent name that he`s 35 or 36 years old, but he`s still a young guy with a lot left.

- Anwar el-Sadat

Colorado Springs is one of the best places in the world to see the history of the Earth,

- Asad Jahangir

(Date rape is a major alcohol-related problem that schools don`t advertise and U.S. News & World Report doesn`t mention in its annual college issue. But administrators and counselors deal with it every year. The University of Colorado advised female students,) When you`re drunk, you`ll have sex with someone you wouldn`t have lunch with, so bring a condom. ... The quality of men`s manners seems to be directly proportional to how drunk I am.

- Asaf Shariv

It`s an indescribable feeling. Growing up, I used to do anything to hang out with the (former A-League`s now-defunct) Colorado Foxes.

- Assemblyman Jay La Suer

You`ve got Aspen (Colorado) homes to sell, you`ve got other ways to raise cash.

- Barbara Diskin

This has an incredible impact not only locally, but throughout the region, Phoenix and Colorado Springs.

- Barbara Weisel