Quotes About Arizona

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

Well, I think it's real important that people understand, first and foremost, those of us that have lived in Arizona or in southern California, we have a very diverse population. The Hispanic population has been part of all of our lives since we've been born here or since we've grown up here.

Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.

In fact, driving through Arizona I'd explained a little Buddhism to them, specifically karma, reincarnation, and they all seemed pleased to hear the news. "You mean other chance to come back and try again?" asked the poor little Mexican, who was all bandaged from a fight in Juárez the night before. "That's what they say." "Well goddammit next time I be born I hope I ain't who I am now.

I was honored to wear 'Arizona' across my chest. I am extremely blessed to have my education completely paid for and take part in the great tradition of Wildcat softball. To have my jersey number retired was the ultimate compliment.

There is a well-worn joke about every Navajo family consisting of a mother, father, two children, and an anthropologist, and the fascination with the Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona for anthropologists and ethnomusicologists extends back into the nineteenth century.

Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

The people around the nation, but specifically in Arizona where operation Fast and Furious was carried out, deserve more from their president and their attorney general. I will not rest until full answers are given about this project, justice is served for those responsible, and Attorney General Holder takes responsibility for his role.

Turns out, while all light pollution is bad for astrophysics, the low-pressure sodium lamps are least bad because their contamination can be easily subtracted from telescope data. In a model of cooperation, the entire city of Tucson, Arizona, the nearest large municipality to the Kitt Peak National Observatory, has, by agreement with the local astrophysicists, converted all its streetlights to low-pressure sodium lamps.

Meteor Crater A 150-foot-wide metallic meteor struck the Mogollon Rim in modern-day Arizona 50,000 years ago, leaving a mile-wide hole that's 60 stories deep.

In Arizona, there's mountains behind my house.

In our administration, we're going to follow the law, and any policy that we move forward will fall well within the law and the Arizona Constitution.

Fleetingly he wondered what the man's life had been like, where it had gone so desperately wrong. No one tried to end up like this, alone and defenseless and poor, eking a living from the harsh Arizona desert.

You know that Arizona is going to really be understood and get somewhere some day.

You know you live in Phoenix when you can drive two hours in any one direction and never leave the Valley.

Well, the trip from then on across Arizona and east of Los Angeles was just one Oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there. I like Arizona.

Arizona... the air-cooled-by-nature pine clad northern area... the air-cooled-by-man desert area...

Europe has nothing to recommend it but its old age, and the Petrified forest in Arizona makes a Sucker out of it for old age. Why, that forest was there and doing business before Nero took his first Violin lesson.

In Arizona we salt margaritas, not sidewalks.

Welcome to Arizona, where the heat is sick of the heat.

...the University of Arizona, a very fine school, well liked and spoken of by everybody that knows about it.

Arizona looks like a battle on Mars.

Bessie cried. "I ain't movin' to Arizona! Damnit, there is nothin' there but gravel and scorpions..."