Top 140 Colorado Quotes

We need to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive in Colorado.
John Hickenlooper
We all recognize that Colorado and our nation have a long and storied tradition of gun ownership for hunting, outdoor recreation and self-defense. However, I am not convinced that combat weapons are necessarily part of that heritage.
Mark Udall
Colorado does not shut down. Colorado does not quit. Colorado does not break.
John Hickenlooper
My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.
Gus Van Sant
It was almost a desecration to put a building on the Boulder Turnpike, which is now U.S.-36 and is almost backyards and even junkyards all the way up. We didn’t have to put development just cheek to jowl all the way up to Boulder. There’s enough room in Colorado! But we did.
Richard Lamm
Colorado's right next to Utah - you know, Mormon Centra

Colorado’s right next to Utah – you know, Mormon Central.
Trey Parker
It was in Austin that I had the idea for ‘Days of Heaven.’ I found myself alone for a summer in the town I had left as a high school student. There were those green, undulating hills, and this very beautiful river, the Colorado. The place is inspired and inspiring.
Terrence Malick
In the old nuclear age, you could sit under a big screen under a mountain in Colorado, and you could see where the missiles were coming from.
David E. Sanger
I know that I can look back at my years in Colorado and know that I gave everything that I had. I have no regrets.
Nolan Arenado
I grew up in suburban New York, and my family wasn’t much on traveling, so when I arrived at my alma mater, The Colorado College, I’d never been out West before, seen a 14,000-foot mountain, experienced snow in 70-degree weather, or come into contact with something called a ‘dude.’
Jen Sincero
I’ve lived in Colorado longer than anywhere else in my life. All four of our boys were born and raised here. All of our friends are here.
Ed McCaffrey
I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail that I rode away convinced I’d just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
W. Bruce Cameron
I loved my moment in Colorado. I loved everything. I played with excitement.
Nolan Arenado
I don’t want to, on behalf of the bureau, comment on Ohio law as opposed to Washington law as opposed to Colorado law.
Richard Cordray
You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.
John Hickenlooper
Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It’s somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
Joe Cocker
I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.
James MacArthur
I thought I would be laying hardwood floors in Colorado – a construction worker. Middle class or working class, that’s where I was! I just fought because I loved it. It was so fun! Being able to go in there and outthink your opponents.
Donald Cerrone
I’m somebody who has a military background, grew up in Colorado Springs, and has been a Colorado resident basically since I was two and a half.
Darryl Glenn
If the two economies can figure out how to waltz… I think there is benefit for Colorado colleges and universities, and I think there are benefits for Cuba as well.
John Hickenlooper
I put rural Colorado first, and I introduced the MORE PILT Act to support rural law enforcement, search and rescue operations, wildfire fighting and quality education.
Lauren Boebert
Serving the people of Colorado’s Third Congressional District is the greatest honor of my life.
Lauren Boebert
I oppose the personhood amendment. Years ago I’d said that I’d supported it – it was the wrong idea. Looking at it, talking to people of Colorado, I don’t support it.
Cory Gardner
Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.
Tom Udall
In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
G. Willow Wilson
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
I am from Colorado. I know Colorado inside and out.
Jared Polis
You don’t need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado.
Trey Parker
In terms of Ray Liotta, when I was a teenager growing up in Colorado, I didn’t have pictures of girls on my wall. I had pictures of Ray Liotta on my wall. Along with Mike Patton, he was one of my heroes.
Derek Cianfrance
I’ve lived out West some… I’ve always liked the High Plains areas – eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.
Charles Frazier
In 1999, I found myself the unlikely leader of a community-based effort to protect what was arguably Colorado’s most important brand, and one once thought to be untouchable: the ‘Mile High’ part of Denver’s Mile High Stadium.
John Hickenlooper
I was just this kid from Colorado studying theater, and suddenly I was on a hit TV show.
Sheryl Lee
Colorado has always been a good place to find what you’re made of.
John Hickenlooper
I love a lot of Colorado and upper Utah. I think some of the most beautiful terrain is upper BC.
Joe Lando
Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a bit and saw even more. I assumed when I got to Colorado, the Wild West, there would be a rejection of such intrusive legislation. I was wrong.
David Harsanyi
My district is centered around the progressive college town of Boulder, Colorado, and the high-tech U.S. 36 corridor. It goes from the well-established suburbs of northwest Denver in Adams County to the beautiful mountain towns of Vail and Breckenridge and the majestic Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains.
Jared Polis
I wish I could say that I saw Barcelona playing on TV a

I wish I could say that I saw Barcelona playing on TV and fell in love with football instantly, but I’m from Colorado and Fox Soccer Channel was pretty expensive.
Lindsey Horan
I think that we have positive moments in our history and negative moments in our history. We incarcerated Japanese Americans in the state of Colorado, in Camp Amache. You could say that’s part of our heritage; I would say it’s a shameful part of our heritage and not something we should repeat.
Michael Bennet
I-70 is a crucial economic artery for Colorado and the West, and on an average day, almost 5,000 semi-trucks carrying medicine, food, livestock, fuel, and other critical supplies travel on this federal highway.
Lauren Boebert
When people pay taxes, they are buying a service and benefit for their community. Colorado Tax Tracks shows taxpayers what they pay and what they buy for their money.
Cary Kennedy
Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.
Sidney Altman
I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
Pamela Hanson
I’m a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I’m in the city.
Kate Hudson
Colorado is a state that people like to be themselves and solve their own problems.
John Hickenlooper
Ninety percent of the time, I’m sitting in a bus driving through some place like the Colorado mountains and thinking, ‘Wow, we’re not in a pub in London anymore.’
Ted Dwane
I grew up in Colorado and spent my summers in Montana as a ranch hand.
Chris Eigeman
I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.
Joe Lando
We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we’ve already been seeing in Colorado continue.
John Hickenlooper
In 2016, you no longer have to be in Silicon Valley to launch a successful startup. Colorado is home to many.
Brad Feld
I don’t believe that the science is settled on man-made climate change. And so – while I live in Colorado – you see where I live. I love the environment. And – and I want to make sure we do everything we can to protect the environment. I don’t want government to put artificial standards on us.
Ken Buck
What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver?
Brian Williams
I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.
Louis Bacon
I’m proud that Colorado delivered a victory to Barack Obama in 2008 and we will do so again in 2012.
Ken Salazar
Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.
Robert Teeter
Colorado needs a governor who brings people together to create jobs and cut government spending.
John Hickenlooper
I’d never really experienced the West before moving to Colorado. The East Coast, where I grew up, has a lot of big cities, like Boston and New York, and is more densely populated, and I instantly fell in love with the big open spaces of the West, where you can see not just for a few miles but for a few hundred miles.
Tyler Hamilton
I’m a blue-collar kid from Colorado. I grew up on a farm.
Ivan Moody
If people think that Colorado is a beacon for artists and creative people who are really talented, I think they’re going to be a little happier during the day, and I think they’re going to be a little more successful at their job, no matter what their job is.
John Hickenlooper