North Dakota Quotes

We’ve collected the best North Dakota Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Jenny Lewis, Katherine Dunn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Phil Jackson, Kevin Cramer. Use them as an inspiration.

1

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!’

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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.

Kevin Cramer

6

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.

7

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.

8

There are schoolteachers around the country that work second jobs after their teaching duties are done: one woman in North Dakota I spoke to was heading off to clean houses after the final bell in order to pay her rent.

9

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

Bobby Heenan

10

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.

11

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

12

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

13

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.

14

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

15

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

16

We targeted five industries for growth, industries where we have natural advantages in North Dakota: value-added agriculture, advanced manufacturing, technology-based businesses, energy and tourism. We worked very hard to grow all those businesses, and that’s what’s happening.

17

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.

18

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

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I simply didn’t believe we needed a constitutional amendment to protect women‘s rights. I knew of only one law that was discriminatory toward women, a law in North Dakota stipulating that a wife had to have her husband‘s permission to make wine.

Phyllis Schlafly