logo

Quotes About Arizona

I live in Arizona. I think the Hispanic people are amazing. I think when people talk about illegal immigration... it does them a disservice.
~ Charles Barkley
Arizona really has been a trailblazer in discouraging illegal immigration.
~ Kris Kobach
I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
~ Kacy Hill
Did you really shoot all those badmen in Arizona?" the banker asked, early on. "My share," Wyatt admitted. "What was bad about them?" the mortician asked. "We were Republicans," Wyatt said. "They were Democrats." And that, in this group, had been enough.
~ Max Allan Collins
Arizona has excellent medical schools, both public and private, and it is critical that we create an environment that keeps medical students in Arizona to practice medicine once they complete medical school and their residency programs.
~ Doug Ducey
I grew up in Arizona. I love it. I'm a part of the desert. I feel like, really, I'm from the Sonoran Desert, which is - extends to both sides of the border. I'm really from that part of Mexico, also. And I hate that there's a fence, you know, running through it.
~ Linda Ronstadt
One state can't set everything right, but here in Arizona, we can set an example for the rest of the country in how those of us in elected office conduct ourselves and interact with each other and our constituents.
~ Doug Ducey
Land of extremes. Land of contrasts. Land of surprises. Land of contradictions.... That is Arizona.
~ Federal Writers Project
a small bike shop north of Phoenix, in Glendale, Arizona. It's called the Roadrunner Bike Center.
~ Brad Stone
And now, since I've been governor since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our borders with absolutely no response. So we have been facing this crisis, and it's devastating the people of Arizona. And I feel as governor I have a responsibility to protect the citizens.
~ Jan Brewer
I still run into people in the business who skip over any other credits I have and say, 'I loved 'Hey, Dude!' This was back in '88, '89, '90. It was a goofy show about kids working at a dude ranch in Arizona. We did 65 episodes; I wrote 13 of them. We didn't know what we were doing, but it was writers' boot camp. It was great.
~ Graham Yost
The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.
~ Keith Hernandez
Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
~ Jack Adams
You know you're an Arizona native when you take rain dances seriously.
~ Skip Boyer
There's not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.
~ Stewart Udall
In a similar study at the University of Arizona, researchers infected the metal door handle to an office building and found it took only about four hours for the "virus" to spread through the entire building, infecting over half of employees and turning up on virtually every shared device like photocopiers and coffee machines. In the real world, such infestations can stay active for up to three days.
~ Bill Bryson
Of course, it is possible that alien beings travel billions of miles to amuse themselves by planting crop circles in Wiltshire or frightening the daylights out of some poor guy in a pickup truck on a lonely road in Arizona (they must have teenagers, after all), but it does seem unlikely.
~ Bill Bryson
The most celebrated germ expert in the world is almost certainly Dr. Charles P. Gerba of the University of Arizona, who is so devoted to the field that he gave one of his children the middle name Escherichia, after the bacterium Escherichia coli.
~ Bill Bryson
My Aunt Libby's husband had made a joke once, about a nun that a nunnery sent to Teresa for a checkup. This nun kept hearing harp notes in her ears and a voice saying over and over, Alleluia! Only she wasn't sure, on being closely questioned, whether the voice was saying Alleluia or Arizona. The nun had been born in Arizona. I think she ended up in some asylum.
~ Sylvia Plath
I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands.
~ Nate Ruess
But the people of Arizona, the people of America, have been promised that our borders would be secured for years and years and years, with it not happening. And I don't believe the people of America, certainly not the people of Arizona, are ready to discuss anything other at this point in time other than securing our borders.
~ Jan Brewer
And you know, I said yesterday, you know, you know, if they're not going to - if the feds aren't going to do their job, well, then, I'm up to suing the feds to make them do their job! I mean, they sued Arizona, you know, we can sue them back! I mean, they're not - they're not enforcing the laws!
~ Jan Brewer
My dad, grew up poor in a copper-mining town in Arizona. The eleventh of 15 children, he learned to be resourceful and entrepreneurial at a young age, shining shoes at local bars and starting his own pinata business at the tender age of twelve.
~ Rachel Campos-Duffy