#pacific

Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#anyone #arduous #boat #continent #going

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#had #pacific #power #presence #states

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully. ↗

— William Kirby

#certainly #dispute #done #happens #however

As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal. ↗

— Ted Kulongoski

#change #dedicate #economic #era #hope

There's no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean - or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean - to leave this place. The reason why is because of the freedom. Freedom for a man to mark out his own destiny. It's not, 'Hey, you have so much.' ↗

— Luke Scott

#atlantic #because #caribbean #destiny #freedom

We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing. ↗

— Junipero Serra

#contrive #fishing #good #immense #indians

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#back #breathing #endangered #endangered species #endangered species act

Just as the sea is an open and ever flowing reality, so should our oceanic identity transcend all forms of insularity, to become one that is openly searching, inventive, and welcoming. ↗

— Epeli Hauʻofa

#inspirational #pacific #inspirational

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#atomic bomb #bomb #damage #desolation #eden

I've just got a new house in Pacific Palisades. It's really cute. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#got #house #i #just #new