Sayings About The Yukon

#1. This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

Robert W. Service

#2. For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

Sam Abell

#3. The captain glares down at me, his lip curled in irritation at my insolence, and something dark, something cold and dangerous, moves behind his eyes. In that moment, I do not doubt him. In that moment, I believe wholeheartedly he is who he claims to be.

Lisa Maxwell

#4. If we are not growing together, then we should not stay together.

Nyki Edwinna

#5. Trust is established by working around horses in an utterly predictable manner.

Monty Roberts

#6. I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.

Amy Poehler

#7. What I Cannot Say
only this
I was looking
for evidence of unconditional love,
but what I found was you.
standing on the ferry deck
your dark hair a fury in the wind
Are you lost to me?

Elissa Janine Hoole

#8. It turns out that there are swaths of habitat in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth. Remember, this was a highly plastic animal that lived over tremendous climate variation.

Hendrik Poinar

#9. My first trip was the Appalachian Trail, and I was able to finish it despite having no skills and no experience when I started. In comparison, I can think of only a few individuals in the world who have the potential do complete the Alaska-Yukon Expedition.

Andrew Skurka

#10. The universe appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound.

Victor Hugo

#11. The official ideology [of Poland] is Marxism-Leninism, which no one openly admits to believing. For Marx expressed the German view, and Lenin the Russian one, and the meeting of these particular minds has always spelled Polish ruin.

Norman Davies

#12. When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.

Howard Blum

#13. This is a landmark opportunity for all that live and work in the Yukon. The Territory is now one step closer to realizing the potential that geothermal heat and power has for the economy, the environment, First Peoples, tax-payers and businesses.

Alison Thompson

#14. Sitka Charley started. There had been more than one shot, yet there was but one other rifle in the party. He gave a fleeting glance at the men who lay so quietly, smiled viciously at the wisdom of the trail, and hurried on to meet the Men of the Yukon.

Jack London

#15. It's wasted on dummies." (Life is). "They give it to dummies and fools.

Saul Bellow

#16. Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.

Christina Stead

#17. And I'll break, when I'm through breakin,
I'll leave you broke,
Drop the mic when I'm finished, and watch it smoke

Rakim

#18. Between an egg that is fried and an egg that is cremated there is a wide and substantial difference.

P.G. Wodehouse

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

Robert Service

#20. There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

Dan Aykroyd

#21. It was you that chose your due,
You built a maze you can't get through.
I tried to help you all I can,
Now I can't do nuttin' for you, man!

Flavor Flav

#22. To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.

William Shakespeare

#23. I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.

Vin Diesel

#24. I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.

Robert W. Service