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The trip across Arizona is just one oasis
after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow
there, I like Arizona. ~Will Rogers
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.
~Administration in the State of Arizona, U.S. public relief program,
1935-1943
You know you're an Arizona native when you take rain dances
seriously. ~Skip Boyer, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native,
When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993
Arizona looks like a battle on Mars. ~Author Unknown
A three-inch rain in Phoenix means three inches between drops.
~Local Saying
Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter - and hell spends
the summer. ~Popular saying, modified from a booster slogan in the
1930s
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, Roughing It, 1872, chapter LVI
You know you're an Arizona native when you think Taco Bell is the
local phone company. ~Emma Louise Philabaum, quoted in You Know
You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993
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. ~Donald Culross Peattie, The
Road of a Naturalist, 1941
You know you're an Arizona native when... a rainy day puts you in a
good mood. ~Marshall Trimble, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona
Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993
I'll take heat rash over frost bite any day. ~Ken Travous
I am enamored with desert dew because it's usually the closest thing
we get to rain. ~Linda Solegato
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.
~Local Saying
Once, it was so damned dry, the bushes followed the dogs around.
~Nancy Dedera
In Phoenix summer is
the title, the refrain,
And every other verse.
~Linda Solegato
You know you're an Arizona native when you run to the window just to
watch a dust storm. ~Marshall Trimble, quoted in You Know You're an
Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is
only a hole in Arizona. ~George F. Will
You know you're from Arizona when you feed your chickens ice cubes
to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs. ~Local Saying
In Arizona, shade trees are your best friends. (And occasionally the
basis of small civil wars over parking.) ~Author Unknown
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
You know you live in Phoenix when the cold-water faucet is hotter
than the hot-water faucet. ~Author Unknown
It's so hot even my fake plants are wilting. ~Linda Solegato
You know you live in Phoenix when the four seasons are: tolerable,
hot, really hot, and are you freakin' kidding me?! ~Author Unknown
You know you live in Phoenix when you can drive four hours in any
one direction and never leave the Valley. ~Author Unknown
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
You know you're an Arizona native when you "hug" a cactus only once
in your lifetime. ~Nancy Dedera, quoted in You Know You're an
Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993
You know you live in Phoenix when you are willing to park 3 blocks
away because you actually found shade from a palm tree imported 300
miles from California and nurtured with water piped 250 miles from
Nevada. ~Author Unknown
Winter in 'Zona is spring
Spring is summer
Autumn is our winter
And summer is Hell.
~Cherishe Archer
You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass
transit" in the dictionary. ~Paul Johnson, quoted in You Know You're
an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993
You know you live in Phoenix when you've experienced condensation on
your butt cheeks from the hot water evaporating in the toilet bowl.
~Author Unknown
A hundred ten in the shade is sorta hot, but you don't have to
shovel it off your driveway. ~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." ~Sydney Smith, Lady Holland’s Memoir (It's actually not
about Arizona, but it fits!)
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state
of inelegance. ~Jane Austen (Also not about Arizona, but fitting!)
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Quotations about Arizona