Quotes About The Klondike Gold Rush

#1. Researching and writing about the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 was one of the most exciting and involving projects I've undertaken.

Will Hobbs

#2. My idea of heaven still is to drive the gravel farm roads of Umbria and Tuscany, very pleasantly lost.

Frances Mayes

#3. As she points out, leaving behind the rush-hour commute, corporate politics, and a relentless BlackBerry that never slept was no sacrifice.

Irene Hannon

#4. I'm actually more of a cat guy than a dog person because I travel so much. I love cats.

Tim Allen

#5. Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.

P.D. Ouspensky

#6. The definition of 'safe' is not strictly an engineering term; it's a societal term. Does it mean absolutely no loss of life? Does it mean absolutely no contamination with radiation? What exactly does 'safe' mean?

Henry Petroski

#7. Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

Norman Wisdom

#8. When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.

Eric Maisel

#9. Some miners' wives take in washing and make more money than their husbands do. In every gold rush from this one to the Klondike, the suppliers and service industries will gather up the dust while ninety-nine per cent of the miners go home with empty pokes.

John McPhee

#10. People will run over you forever and treat you like you are the one that's crazy.

Sonya K. Boone

#11. There's a land - oh, it beckons and beckons,
And I want to go back - and I will.

Robert Service

#12. I can afford just about anything I'm willing to pay for.

Katja Millay

#13. Go outside! I mean, even leaves from a park are beautiful in a clear glass vase. I'd rather see that than fake anything any day.

Nate Berkus

#14. I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.

Sophia Loren