Quotes About Nome

#1. Tex Rickard started his career staging boxing matches for Nome's miners, then moved on to New York and built Madison Square Garden, becoming one

Gay Salisbury

#2. I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'

Gary Paulsen

#3. The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

Rick Riordan

#4. Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What's the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?" "That would be Antarctica," Zia said. "A punishment assignment. Nothing there but a couple of cold magicians and some magic penguins." "Magic penguins?" "Don't ask.

Rick Riordan

#5. You put something behind you, Nome, it's got its eyes on your back. I'd rather keep it in front of me, so I can see where it's going." -Mason Carson (Bowes)

Nora Roberts

#6. XXI. But Arnold Bros (est. 1905) said, This is the Sign I give you:
XXII. If You Do Not See What You Require, Please Ask.
From The Book of Nome, Regulations v. XXI-XXII

Terry Pratchett

#7. They were all at the First Nome, in Egypt, for a weeklong training session on controlling cheese demons (yes, they're a real thing; believe me, you don't want to know), so I was on my

Rick Riordan

#8. Because the Nome King intends to do evil is no excuse for my doing the same,

L. Frank Baum

#9. They said something funny. They said, 'Even God leaves on the last boat from Nome.' What does that mean?

Marcus Sedgwick

#10. Normally my sister, Sadie, or some of our other initiates from Brooklyn House would've come with me. But they were all at the First Nome, in Egypt, for a weeklong training session on controlling cheese demons(yes, they're a real thing; believe me, you don't want to know)

Rick Riordan

#11. When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.

William Faulkner

#12. My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

William Shakespeare

#13. It had been ten years since she'd called me a butt. We were overdue.

Rick Riordan

#14. All 2,100 miles of the trail, as well as side trails, footbridges, signs, blazes, and shelters, are maintained by volunteers - indeed, the AT is said to be the largest volunteer-run undertaking on the planet.

Bill Bryson

#15. I think every character I play definitely has parts of me. I can't ever play someone that's completely different to me.

Luke Mitchell

#16. 'Into the Blizzard' follows the author as he traces the footsteps of the Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War: where they trained in Scotland, where they fought in Gallipoli and where they died at the Battle of the Somme in France.

Michael Winter