81 South Dakota Quotes

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Famous South Dakota Quotes

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

During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis. - Calamity Jane

During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis. — Calamity Jane

South Carolina is a great place to be from. — Tim Scott

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

I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there. — Peter Agre

I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States. — J. E. B. Stuart

I grew up in Minnesota. - Sean William Scott

I grew up in Minnesota. — Sean William Scott

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white. — Thabo Mbeki

I love everything Minnesota. — Sean William Scott

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious. — Pearl S. Buck

In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes. — Mike Pence

Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future. — Leonard Boswell

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa. - Tom Vilsack

Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa. — Tom Vilsack

New Jersey I’d say is one of the top 50 states. — Theo Von

Short South Dakota Quotes

  • The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women. — Erk Russell
  • Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory. — Brooks Hays
  • My favorite place in the whole world is Jackson Hole, Wyoming. — Miguel Ferrer
  • I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods. — Terry Gilliam
  • Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target. — Phil Bredesen
  • The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate. — William Henry Ashley
  • I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican. — Shannen Doherty
  • I love a lot of Colorado and upper Utah. I think some of the most beautiful terrain is upper BC. — Joe Lando

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North Dakota Quotes

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

Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output. — John Hoeven

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. — Michelle Pfeiffer

It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future. — Kent Conrad

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans — Charlie Chaplin

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

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody. — Warren Christopher

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

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. — Kent Conrad

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

Dakota Quotes

I'm sure that they will continue to look for ways to try and undermine my support, but I have every confidence that in doing this job for South Dakota, I will continue to build on my support and be able to succeed once again in November. — Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

One thing that stands out throughout the entire year was that in South Dakota we are much more united than we are divided. Now the divided part creates news, but the united part is what moves us forward. — Mike Rounds

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

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

My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live. — Tommy Bolin

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." — Tao Lin

When I did 'The Social Network,' David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool. — Dakota Johnson

I've just made a cancer drama, called 'Now Is Good,' directed by Ol Parker and starring Dakota Fanning. We filmed in Brighton and it's about a girl dying of leukemia, although it's not as depressing as it sounds. — Kaya Scodelario

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? — Rick Riordan

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. — John Thune

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More South Dakota Quotes

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. — Standing Bear

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

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. — Tim Johnson

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. — Richie Havens

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. — John Thune

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

College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name-he'd laugh to know that it's a science scholarship, when I can barely do math! I also fund a nursing scholarship at the Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, South Dakota, in the name of my mother, who was a nurse. — Diana Palmer

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. — George McGovern

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. — Craig Ferguson

The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance. — Dexter Filkins

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

I'm sure that they will continue to look for ways to try and undermine my support, but I have every confidence that in doing this job for South Dakota, I will continue to build on my support and be able to succeed once again in November. — Stephanie Herseth

That's why people are standing up again to fight the Keystone pipeline in Nebraska and South Dakota and Montana. Everyone is well aware of what this industry is about. It engages not only in those kind of practices, polluting people's water, but it has polluted our political life now for a quarter century. — Bill McKibben

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. — Winona LaDuke

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. — John Reuben Zappin

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? — Bill Maher

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. — Dan O'Brien

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. — Kristi Noem

I met my wife in South Dakota. — George McGovern

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

I voted against the climate-change legislation. Not that I don't believe we should move to a clean-energy economy, and it can be good for South Dakota's economy to do so, but it was started out as a very partisan bill in the committee. — Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

I think that there was a lot of undisclosed money that came into South Dakota, driving a message to paint me as a Washington partisan, which I don't believe that I am, but it was a message that resonated, after pounding it away for a number of weeks. — Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress. — Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water. — Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise. — Hubert H. Humphrey

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! — Howard Dean

What's getting all the attention is we have South Dakota putting out this direct frontal attack. I'm actually just as concerned about what they're doing every day on the ground. If you restrict access to the point there is no one who can or will do it for you, you've taken the right away. And that's becoming the reality for women in many states in this country. — Jackie Payne

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

I hereby pledge that, if elected to represent the people of South Dakota, I will never vote to shut down their government, or to place their government in default, in order to force it to act, or to prevent it from acting, on unrelated issues. — Rick Weiland

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

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