These Nevada quotes will inspire you. Nevada is a state in the Western region of the United States
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Nevada quotes, Nevada sayings, and Nevada proverbs.
Best Nevada Quotes
- “However, I also want to say this. The ranch standoff that took place out in Nevada was not about a man named Cliven Bundy. At the heart of this issue was my belief that our government is simply out of control. Now, to me, this was about a federal agency’s dangerous response to a situation that could have resulted in a catastrophe, and that means people dying and people being shot, kind of comparable to what we saw in Waco, Texas.” ~ Sean Hannity
- “If I wasn’t in broadcasting I would like to grow a gigantic beard; and I would like to open a motorcycle garage somewhere in the desert in Nevada and I would disappear and work on bikes, make them really fast. I would love to just race motorcycles for a living if I could do it, but I’m just not that good at it so this is what I’m doing.” ~ George Stroumboulopoulos
- “Mitt Romney and I don’t agree on every issue and certainly housing is one of them. When you look at what is going on here in Southern Nevada, you can’t say you got to let the housing market hit bottom. We have been bouncing along the bottom for years. And the fact is we have to do everything possible to: 1) keep people in their homes and 2) get people who are out of their homes back into their homes.” ~ Joe Heck
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“I’m so proud to bring the title of Miss USA back to Nevada.” ~ Nia Sanchez
- “Generally speaking, it’s a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.” ~ Neill Blomkamp
- “A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.” ~ Paul Laxalt
- “I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don’t identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles.” ~ Rachel Kushner
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“The state of our state is fragile, but I know our spirit and love for Nevada is not.” ~ Kenny Guinn
- “From its founding, [Nevada] has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters–the mining industry, the railroads, the federal government, and now gaming and tourism–that have driven the state’s economy and compelled its direction.” ~ Hal Rothman
- “When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?” ~ Wanda Sykes
- “My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory–an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor’s absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of “Mr. Secretary,” gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.” ~ Mark Twain
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“As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.” ~ Kenny Guinn
- “And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid” ~ John Cornyn
- “Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue… Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector.” ~ Kenny Guinn
- “When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.” ~ Ruth Brown
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“People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I’ve never had to prove my manhood to anyone.” ~ Harry Reid
- “I’m gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I’ll be there for two weeks. And I’ll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.” ~ Mel Tillis
- “Nevada’s one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.” ~ Drew Carey
- “I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values – even if they rarely talked about them.” ~ Harry Reid
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“Nevada was hit hardest by the recession – highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.” ~ Brian Sandoval
- “I think what’s going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona – and I think it’s going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory.” ~ Bill Richardson
- “But if you go over the line, you don’t want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn’t put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn’t put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did.” ~ James Belushi
- “I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone – that Nevada’s system can and will support them.” ~ Brian Sandoval
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“I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I’ve ever been on is at a casino in Nevada.” ~ Tia Carrere
- “Colorado is a swing state, like Nevada, like North Carolina, like Florida. It all depends. [Donald] Trump has offended Mexicans and Muslims and millennials and some women. Will those offended people be energized to show up in the way that Trump supporters are energized to show up? It will be an energy.” ~ Geraldo Rivera
- “I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in particular demographics.” ~ Lucy Flores
- “Nevada is certainly more representative of what the entire country looks like demographically, so you really are testing how these candidates are doing across ethnicities, across genders, across cultures.” ~ Lucy Flores
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“I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did.” ~ Jim Gibbons
- “Myths that need clarification: “Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach.” False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “We have a team in Nevada that is looking for licensed cultivators to grow Chong’s Choice. Hopefully recreational passes this year and we can go full force.” ~ Tommy Chong
- “Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It’s considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It’s normal.” ~ Bruce Sterling
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“The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.” ~ Daniel Pinchbeck
- “In 1966 the ACS formulated a State Model Cancer Act which was instrumental in the enactment of anti-quackery laws now enforced in 9 states…In California (it is a) felony…The use of unproven methods is also a criminal offense in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.” ~ Jane Brody
- “Is there any media here? A couple? Excellent. I want to ask you, I don’t know what persuasion you are, but would you like to go outside to a 1st Amendment zone? No! So did it make sense to have a 1st Amendment zone in Nevada? No, of course not. That’s ridiculous. If we’re talking about one of the most egregious things that happened down there, it was the 1st Amendment zone in Nevada.” ~ Matt Shea
- “If there are greater activities in Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect, within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes. But these are to be more in the Southern than the Northern Hemisphere.” ~ Edgar Cayce
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“Gaming is the backbone of Nevadas economy.” ~ Kenny Guinn
- “Hillary’s opponent, in his entire campaign, every two or three weeks has said for months and months and months, beginning in Nevada, that really there wasn’t much difference in how America did when I was president and how America’s done under President Bush. Now, if you believe that, you should probably vote for him, but you get a very bad grade in history.” ~ William J. Clinton
- “For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.” ~ Neil Postman
- “My colleague Senator John Ensign of Nevada told me a story that epitomizes the selfishness of our culture: When I was a teenager, I had a sticker in my car with a picture of a bear scratching himself on the tree, and under it was the saying, ‘If it feels good, do it!’ That was the motto of the ’60s and the ’70s, and certainly it is the motto today. The image of the bear scratching himself highlights a view of human beings as animals, and that people should do what pleases them at the moment without a thought to the broader long-term consequences of their actions.” ~ Rick Santorum
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“I’m moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.” ~ Raymond Carver
- “There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home.” ~ David Rakoff
- “After a long time, I cleared my throat. “So anyway, when we get to Nevada…I think we should rethink your dad’s rule.” Alex glanced down at me and smiled – the first real smile I’d seen on his face in a long time. “You know what? It’s already been rethought and completely ditched,” he said. And he wrapped his arms around me and we stood looking up at the mountains, with the rising rays of the sun lighting them from the east.” ~ L.A. Weatherly
- “What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: ‘You’re going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you’re sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.'” ~ P. W. Singer
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“Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as ‘Burning Man’ in Nevada? Is there time to change this?” ~ Grover Norquist
- “Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship.” ~ Dave Barry
- “The premise of my whole campaign has been not that people need to believe what I say to them, but they need to look at what I have done. And what I have done in the state of Nevada, I have voted over a 100 times against tax and fee increases, poor public policy, and unconstitutional bills.” ~ Sharron Angle
- “I had crazy experience when I was talking to voters at the Nevada caucus the other night in Vegas. Voter after voter after voter, these are Republican primary voters, caucus goers, saying I don`t listen to Fox anymore. I can`t trust Fox anymore. I`m over them. And these were all [Donald] Trump supporters who he had successfully sort of pried their trust away from the thing they have been trusting for years.” ~ Donald Trump
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“I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.” ~ Sharron Angle
- “Sometimes I think we’re on this world for three reasons: to be useful, to tell each other stories and to collect stuff. It’s the only explanation for eBay. We love to collect stuff, and at least if we’re collecting stuff in cyberspace we’re not deforesting the Sierra Nevada.” ~ Paul Saffo
- “I represent a district in Nevada, a state that is home to more wild horses than all other states combined.” ~ Jon Porter
- “We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation.” ~ Jon Porter
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“Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada’s rural communities.” ~ Jim Gibbons
- “As children, we had access to all the open space imaginable. We would set up camps in rural Utah where the Tempest Company was at work laying pipe. We spent time around the West in Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Colorado. Wild beautiful places. Now, many of these natural places have disappeared under the press of development.” ~ Terry Tempest Williams
- “During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge near Elko, Nevada. In both incidents the official verdict was ‘pilot error,’ but since their passengers, who were innocent of the controls, also failed to survive, it seemed that fate was the hunter. As it had been and would be.” ~ Ernest K. Gann
- “I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol and go into a silver-mine and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.” ~ Caroline Lawrence
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“Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don’t make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.” ~ Walter Wykes
- “Over the weekend, John Kerry – the big John Kerry juggernaut moves on – he won primaries in Washington D.C., Nevada and, I think, Canada. And he’s so confident that he’s started nailing that intern again.” ~ David Letterman
- “The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.” ~ Harry Reid
- “Nevada involved cattle, right? First of all, I thought the Lord owned the cattle on the thousand hills. What about the fact that even in early Scripture, the issue of water and forage rights is actually talked about by Abraham?” ~ Matt Shea
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“Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.” ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
- “President Bush is a liar. He betrayed Nevada and he betrayed the country… All Americans should be concerned, not just because he lied to me or the people of Nevada and indeed all Americans, but because the President’s decision threatens Americans’ lives.” ~ Harry Reid
- “Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country.” ~ Jon Porter
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“Nevada appeared to be a firewall for Hillary Clinton.” ~ Renee Montagne
- “With our abundance of wind, solar, and geothermal energy, Nevada has been a leader in moving away from carbon emissions and embracing a clean energy economy that has created good-paying jobs in our state that can’t be shipped overseas.” ~ Catherine Cortez Masto
- “So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.” ~ Sharron Angle
