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I think Colorado looks pretty good on me.

Colorado officially has my heart.

All you need is love and a little time in the mountains.

Destination: Colorado.

I can think of Vermillion reasons why I want to be in Colorado.

In Colorado they say ice to meet you.

Colorado, I lake you a lot!

I’d love to go up to Pike’s Peak, but I don’t see the point.

I always apres-ciate my time in Colorado.

This vacation has been so great that I can bear-ly stand to leave.

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Denver Colorado Quotes

Here are some of our favourite quotes about Denver:

“Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.” – John Hickenlooper

“Growing up in Denver, I’m sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.” – Gale Norton

“And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to get to Denver at once.” – Jack Kerouac

“I’m from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my hands on until I was able to make it to L.A.” – Madisen Beaty

“In Denver, all we really had was pop radio, so I grew up on all that late ’70s pop stuff – Billy Joel, James Taylor, Lionel Richie, Elton John, Steve Miller and Toto. Great love songs and really hooky and melodic music – I have all of that stuff in my heart.” – India Arie

“We just love Denver. The love and support from people here is amazing.” – GriZ

“Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver’s location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage.” – John Hickenlooper

“Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.” – Carmelo Anthony

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Aspen Colorado Quotes

Here are some of the best quotes people have mentioned about Aspen.

“I love hiking in the mountains in Aspen. Breathing the clean, fresh air is great. Plus, it gives me a cardiovascular workout and firms my legs.” – Chris Evert

“Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen – everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.” – Sage Stallone

“My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.” – Emeril Lagasse

“Aspen is the life to live, see how much there is to give. See how strongly you believe, see how much you may receive.” – John Denver

“Whenever we can, we tend to use debt to fund deals, as Aspen is very cash generative, so it doesn’t make sense to issue equity. Over time, we can eliminate debt.” – Stephen Saad

“I love hiking in the mountains in Aspen. Breathing the clean, fresh air is great. Plus, it gives me a cardiovascular workout and firms my legs.” – Chris Evert

“I’m talkin’ about a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I’m talkin’ about Aspen.” – Jim Carrey

“It’s just the way it is. The sky is blue, the sun is bright, and Aspen endlessly loves America. It’s how the world was designed to be.” – Kiera Cass

“…the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.” – Steve Martin

“I love you, Aspen. You’ll always be my prince.” – Kiera Cass

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Boulder Colorado Quotes

“Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don’t know why.” – Mike D

“I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the University for the Ski Team, and in my opinion, it’s the best place for skiing – you have this super-light, fluffy champagne snow.” – Tyler Hamilton

“Boulder was my U.S. base for the better part of 20 years, and it will always have a special place in my heart.” – Tyler Hamilton

“Boulder was not the small town I had expected. It is a vivacious community of sophisticated people, who have the same aspirations and expectations you find in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.” – Kimbal Musk

“Boulder should be next to the word ‘community’ in the dictionary.” – Kimbal Musk

“Boulder is a very smart community.” – Brad Feld

“In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.” – Bob Beauprez

“In Boulder entrepreneurship circles, there is a genuine desire to see others succeed and a general belief that karma matters. There’s a sense that together we’re building something here, and that we’re all a meaningful part of it.” – David Cohen

“Strong community and mentorship are the lifeblood of any successful entrepreneurial ecosystem, and it’s exciting the Boulder is showing the world just what sort of impact these things can actually have.” – David Cohen

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Colorado Sayings

If you want to see an awesome color, then go to Colorado it’s beauty is like no others. – Unknown

I had my house converted to the Colorado altitude, so I am always above sea level. – Unknown

We are on the Colorado…that means something more to me than thoughts of electrical power or a harnessed river. – Unknown

Colorado has always been a good place to find what you’re made of. – Unknown

Rocky Mountain Quotes

“The Rocky Mountains realize – nay, exceed – the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.” – Isabella Bird

“As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountains, like I did, you see the snow drifts piled up six feet high, and you’re two feet, so it’s impressive.” – Kip Thorne

“Is there climate change? I live in the shadow of some of the greatest climate change the world has ever seen. It’s called the Rocky Mountains. When the glaciers went back.” – Scott Tipton

“Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry: the heartbeat of the West as it fought its way upward toward civilization.”― Wallace Stegner

“The Rockies are therefore very young and should never be thought of as ancient. They are still in the process of building and eroding, and no one today can calculate what they will look like ten million years from now. They have the extravagant beauty of youth, the allure of adolescence, and they are mountains to be loved.”― James A. Michener

“I was hiking a five-day loop – alone – in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly.” – Claire Cameron

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Skiing Quotes

“Skis are not just pieces of wood, steel & fiberglass. They are tools for escape, a medium for personal expression, a way to challenge fears, push limits and share incredible experiences with your friends.” – Unknown

“The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars’ worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.” – P.J. O’Rourke

“Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism, way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.” – Michael Kennedy

“Kids today, all they talk about is big air. I say, stay on the mountain, that’s where the action is. If you want big air, pull my finger.” – Smooth Johnson

“Skiing is the only sport where you spend an arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg.” – Anonymous

“Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the entire situation.” – Delores LaChapelle

“There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.” – Lord Mancroft

“Skiing makes me feel great, and it gives my legs such an incredible workout.” – Joely Fisher

“The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke, glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run.” – Tim Cahill

“Skiing can be thought of as a control and guidance activity, sliding down on a varying surface.” – David W. Murrie

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Quotes about Colorado River

“The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.” – Kent Hovind

“What’s happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, overdammed, and it’s polluted in some places.” – Greg MacGillivray

“The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock—cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock—ten thousand strangely carved forms; rocks everywhere, and no vegetation, no soil, no sand. In long, gentle curves the river winds about these rocks.” — John Wesley Powell

“[The Colorado River] exploration was not made for adventure, but purely for scientific purposes, geographic and geologic, and I had no intention of writing an account of it, but only of recording the scientific results.”— John Wesley Powell

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Lyrics/Songs about Colorado

“But the Colorado rocky mountain high I’ve seen it rain in’ fire in the sky The shadow from the starlight is softer than a lullaby Rocky mountain high ” – John Denver, ‘Rocky Mountain High’

“I heard a lot about the mountains and the Colorado range.” – Jimmy Buffett, ‘A Mile High In Denver’

“My home is Colorado With her proud mountains tall Where the rivers, like gypsys down her black canyons fall but I’m a long, long way from Denver with a long way to go So lend an ear to my singing cause I’ll be back no more.” – Townes Van Zandt, ‘My Proud Mountains’

“Hey Colorado it was not so long ago I left your mountain to try life on the road now I’m finished with that race it was much too fast a pace and I think I know my place Colorado I want to come home.” – The Flying Burrito Brothers, ‘Colorado’

“Miles pass behind me With the things that I have done Left behind so I could find a place where I could run Colorado bluebird sky you can live a mile high Colorado bluebird sky.” – String Cheese Incident, ‘Colorado Bluebird Sky’

“Well, I was sittin’ in this beer joint down in Houston, Texas Was drinkin’ Colorado Cool-Aid and talkin’ to some Mexicans An’ we was, what’s that you say? What’s Colorado Cool-Aid? Well, it’s a can of Coors brewed from a mountain stream It’ll set you head on fire an’ make your kidneys scream oh, it sure is fine yeah, we was havin’ ourselves one of them real good times.” – Johnny Paycheck, ‘Colorado Cool-Aid’

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Nature Quotes

Nature in Colorado is amazing. Here are some of the best nature quotes. You might also like to check out camping quotes or climbing quotes to caption your photo

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” – Isaac Newton

“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” – Carl Sagan

“I think Nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s, she’s never gonna let us relax!” – Richard Phillip Feynman

“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.” – Claude Monet

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” – Alice Walker

“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” – Steve Maraboli

Hiking Quotes

Here are some of the best hiking quotes:

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you are climbing it.” – Andy Rooney

“You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.” – Dr. Seuss

“For hiking is one of those things that you can only do when you have the determination in you.” – Unknown

“Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.” – Greg Child

“You need special shoes for hiking—and a bit of a special soul as well.” – Terri Guillemets

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Colorado Springs Quotes

“Colorado springs is one of the best places in the world to see the history of the Earth.” – Kirk Johnson

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