Famous arizona quotations

   I'll take heat rash over frost bite any day.
 ~ by Ken Travous

   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.
 ~ by Local Saying

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   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.
 ~ by Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872, chapter LVI

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

   The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth.
 ~ by Donald Culross Peattie, The Road of a Naturalist, 1941

   You know you're an Arizona native when you run to the window just to watch a dust storm.
 ~ by Marshall Trimble, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993

   You know you're an Arizona native when you take rain dances seriously.
 ~ by Skip Boyer, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993

   You know you're an Arizona native when... a rainy day puts you in a good mood.
 ~ by Marshall Trimble, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993

   A three-inch rain in Phoenix means three inches between drops.
 ~ by Local Saying

   Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter - and hell spends the summer.
 ~ by Popular saying, modified from a booster slogan in the 1930s

   You know you're an Arizona native when you hug a cactus only once in your lifetime.
 ~ by Nancy Dedera, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993

   You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up mass transit in the dictionary.
 ~ by Paul Johnson, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993

   You know you're from Arizona when you feed your chickens ice cubes to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs.
 ~ by Local Saying

   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.
 ~ by Administration in the State of Arizona, U.S. public relief program, 1935-1943

   The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.
 ~ by Will Rogers

   A hundred ten in the shade is sorta hot, but you don't have to shovel it off your driveway.
 ~ by Author Unknown

   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.
 ~ by Sydney Smith, Lady Holland’s Memoir (It's actually not about Arizona, but it fits!)

   You know you're an Arizona native when you think Taco Bell is the local phone company.
 ~ by Emma Louise Philabaum, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera,

   Arizona looks like a battle on Mars.
 ~ by Author Unknown

   Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
 ~ by George F. Will



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