Arizona Quotes and Sayings

Posted by Brian

Each season of adventure reality television gets more and more challenging. I”m waiting for them to come out with a Survivor: Phoenix in July edition.
- Linda Solegato

Chicago’s buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
- Jack Adams

Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach.” False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos.
- Erma Bombeck

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

The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two… the Yanks have four.
- Keith Hernandez

You know you’re from Arizona when you drive two miles around a parking lot looking for a shady place – even in the dead of winter.
- Author Unknown

The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.
- Janet Napolitano

You know you’re from Arizona when you feed your chickens ice cubes to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs.
- Author Unknown

Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter – and hell spends the summer.
- Author Unknown

Desert rains are usually so definitely demarked that the story of the man who washed his hands in the edge of an Arizona thunder shower without wetting his cuffs seems almost credible.
- Author Unknown

It’s so hot even my fake plants are wilting.
- Linda Solegato

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.
- Jane D. Hull

You know, the greatest epitaph in the country is here in Arizon It”s in Tombstone, Ariz and this epitaph says, ”Here lies Jack Williams He done his damndest ” I think that is the greatest epitaph a man could have.
- Harry S Truman

I would rather be known as ‘Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,’ rather than ‘Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.
- Jim Kolbe

For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan.
- John Shadegg

Arizona’s forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.
- Rick Renzi

Fort Yuma is probably the hottest place on earth.  The thermometer stays at one hundred and twenty in the shade there all the time – except when it varies and goes higher.  It is a U.S. military post, and its occupants get so used to the terrific heat that they suffer without it.  There is a tradition… that a very, very wicked soldier died there, once, and of course, went straight to the hottest corner of perdition, – and the next day he telegraphed back for his blankets.
- Mark Twain

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
- Jane Austen

I’ll take heat rash over frost bite any day.
- Ken Travous

Heat, ma’am!” I said; “it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
- Sydney Smith

Arizona looks like a battle on Mars.
- Author Unknown

These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities.
- John Shadegg

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
- George Will

I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.
- Janet Napolitano

Today, Arizona’s sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.
- Jane D. Hull

I live in the dry dusty desert Where we”re always short on water And even if the sun fell upon us It couldn”t get any hotter.
- Linda Solegato

Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red.
- Cecilia Bartoli

Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona’s citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city’s efforts.
- J. D. Hayworth

We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects.
- Janet Napolitano

I often say that Arizonans should decide what’s best for Arizona.
- Jane D. Hull

Despite Arizona’s remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.
- Jane D. Hull

Once, it was so damned dry, the bushes followed the dogs around.
- Nancy Dedera


3 Comments »

  • GP Singh said:

    A hundred ten in the shade is sorta hot, but you don’t have to shovel it off your driveway.

  • shaya Thornton said:

    Arizona, the only state I know that you have to put a heating pad on the door handle to not get burnt

  • shaya Thornton said:

    When i first came to AZ i noticed that there were no clouds in the sky. This is my first time seeing the sky like this.

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