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Quotes About Phoenix

I got to Arizona in 1980, before the Cardinals, Diamondbacks and Coyotes. The sun rose and set with the Phoenix Suns, and it wasn't very spectacular. But I became a loyal fan and went to a lot of games.
~ Peter Billingsley
There was a damn silly bird called a Phoenix back before Christ: every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man.
~ Ray Bradbury
I think Phoenix is a place where people see the potential. They see the young core that we have. They see the fan base, the wonderful city.
~ Devin Booker
I like Joaquin Phoenix. He's an amazing actor and he's so buff.
~ Katie Leung
A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy. It doesn't mean, necessarily, that the industry is eclipsed or that it's gone. Often times, the phoenix rises out of the ashes.
~ Michele Bachmann
Phoenix is a unique track and we do not go anywhere like that place.
~ Chase Elliott
I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.
~ James Fallows
I love Phoenix, and I just felt like it wasn't the right situation for me anymore, and that's nothing to say anything against the city or the fans or even the players on the team. I just didn't agree with the direction that they wanted to take the team.
~ Channing Frye
I freelanced for the 'Boston Phoenix.'
~ Christie Hefner
I'm originally from Phoenix, Arizona, but I've fallen in love with London.
~ Ashley Roberts
I think in Phoenix Phoenix is like the run and gun team. We used to do a drill where we'd try to score in the first seven seconds. We used to do that in practice.
~ Gerald Green
I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
~ Kacy Hill
I was born and raised in Phoenix.
~ Jessica McDonald
I had a couple great years in Phoenix, man.
~ Markieff Morris
My first game in Phoenix is something I'll remember forever.
~ Jared Dudley
Under the influence of mercury, which he administered to himself daily as a salve for his syphilis, & laudanum, which he drank each evening in imprecisely measured amounts to enable him to sleep, because of all things, this brave man feared only his dreams, opiate-enhanced nightmares that gave him no respite & which always ended in flames from which he rose phoenix-like just before dawn each morning, to recommence building what was already ash.
~ Richard Flanagan
Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself.
~ William Shakespeare
Change is the constant the signal for rebirth the egg of the phoenix.
~ Christina Baldwin
My favorite story about Danoff's intensity comes from Bill Miller, who recalls being introduced to him at an investment conference in Phoenix about thirty years ago: "I stuck out my hand and I said, 'Nice to meet you, Will.' And he didn't hold his hand out. He just looked at me and said, 'I'm gonna beat you, man. I'm gonna beat you.
~ William Green
There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.
~ Jamie Farr
...and yes that was meant to be interpreted in a sarcastic bubblegum tone complete with clapping and jazz hands.
~ K.R. Grace, The Phoenix
The biggest lesson learned from 'X-Men: The Last Stand' or 'X3' was that if you are going to tell a Phoenix story, tell the Phoenix story. Don't make it the subplot of the movie. Make it the plot of the movie.
~ Simon Kinberg
Proud world, said I, cease your contest,And let the mighty babe alone.The phoenix builds the phoenix' nest.Love's architecture is his own.The babe whose birth embraves this morn,Made his own bed ere he was born.
~ Richard Crashaw
My people didn't cook over fire." "All people cooked over fire at some point," Antone said. "You know what I mean. Your family." "My family lived in a suburb of Phoenix. I learned campfire cooking in Scouts, like most boys in America." "Touchy, touchy," Moreno said. "I was just--" "Being an ass?" the woman said.
~ Kelley Armstrong