43 Idaho Quotes and Sayings about the Gem State

Idaho is known as the “Gem State”.

The capital and largest city of Idaho is Boise.


Idaho Quotes

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I grew up all over Idaho  – I was born in Emmett, a very small town. ~ Aaron Paul.

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Being raised in Idaho, you think everyone is poor. Then you see the wider world. ~ Jon Huntsman, Sr.

I grew up on a lake on the border of Washington and Idaho. ~ Sydney Sweeney.

Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem. ~ Shelley Berkley.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created. ~ Jeane Kirkpatrick.

The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho. ~ Michael K. Simpson.

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.  ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss

Best Idaho Quotes

Ahead and to the west was our ranger station – and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world. ~ Norman Maclean.

It feels good to be lost in the right direction. ~ Unknown.

I love going to the movies, whitewater rafting in the summer when I am home in Idaho, biking in the summer in Idaho, paddle boarding in the summer. ~ Hilary Knight.

For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration. ~ Butch Otter.

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We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. ~ Unknown.

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. ~ Bernie Taupin.

Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesthetic. Paris is my mecca; it’s where I discovered my flair for fashion. But I pay rent and work in New York, so that is my home  – I love the culture clash of the city. ~ Dree Hemingway.

Famous Idaho Quotes

As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs. ~ Mike Simpson.

I’ve been to some kind of weird places in America. I’ve been to Idaho. ~ Ben Howard.

I have to say that it was working with my grandpa, who grew up on a farm in Mountain Home, Idaho, that had the most influence. Witnessing his work ethic and hearing his stories gave me an appreciation for the farm’s best lessons. ~ John Bytheway.

I never camped as a kid, but I really got into camping and sleeping outdoors. I’ve also done some amazing river floats in New Mexico and Idaho. It’s peaceful and awesome. ~ Conor Oberst.

My wife is very patient. On our honeymoon in 1992, we got a motor home and drove from L.A. to Idaho and then down the coast. I was running a lot, then so she would drop me off, drive six miles, park and wait for me. ~ Sean Astin.

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Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. ~ Ibn Battuta.

Why trip off some random person in Idaho that doesn’t feel my vibe? Like, no thank you. Stay in your life; I’ll stay in mine. ~ Zendaya.

Popular Idaho Quotes

Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.  ~ Aaron Paul.

I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institutions that people take for granted – public education, doctors and hospitals, and the government. ~ Tara Westover.

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I play a lot of golf and I’m in a little ice hockey league at home in Idaho. ~ Mats Wilander.

I get tired of hearing it’s a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they’ve got into laying a chicken -fried steak on you. ~ Robert Fulghum.

As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs. ~ Michael K. Simpson.

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho. ~ Mike Simpson.

The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho. ~ Michael K. Simpson.

Top Idaho Quotes

What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won’t be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control. ~ Butch Otter.

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All my father’s stories were about our mountain, our valley, our jagged little patch of Idaho. ~ Tara Westover.

I’ve given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho. ~ Douglas Coupland.

So? Well, it’s like going to Idaho and eating carrots. I like carrots, but I’m in Idaho, I want a potato. ~ Jerry Seinfeld.

The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho. ~ Harmon Killebrew.

I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life. ~ Pamela Sue Martin.

I might go to some tiny little town in Idaho with, like, three people living there. ~ Robert Pattinson.

I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I’d been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I’d been to L.A. ~ Aaron Paul.

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We must take adventures in order to know where we truly belong. ~ Unknown.

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho. ~ Michael K. Simpson.

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he’d shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night. ~ Mariel Hemingway.

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches. ~ Paul Hogan.


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