Quotes About El Paso

#1. The truth is, Ari, I miss El Paso. When we first moved there, I hated it. But now I think about El Paso all the time. And I think of you. Always, Dante P.S.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#2. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!

William Shakespeare

#3. Part of the job for me and others from El Paso who live along the border is to dispel the myths about how supposedly dangerous the border is.

Beto O'Rourke

#4. And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

Sam Donaldson

#5. In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.

Beto O'Rourke

#6. Yes, Horus said. I remember this place.
It's El Paso, I told him. Unless you went out for Mexican Food, you've never been here.

Rick Riordan

#7. Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

Sam Donaldson

#8. In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.

Bill Dedman

#9. We're on the moon," Sadie murmured. "El Paso, Texas," Bast corrected.

Rick Riordan

#10. While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

Calamity Jane

#11. In El Paso," the President said approvingly, "the people are homicidal but orthodox.

Edmund Morris

#12. El Paso," Andrej echoed slowly. "You do know there's nothing in El Paso but dust, heat, and illegal aliens, right?

J. Fally

#13. If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus

Lee Trevino

#14. We feel and know that we are eternal.

Baruch Spinoza

#15. See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking; you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked.

John Green

#16. I think it's good that [my granddaughter] here because I lost my parents and now it's great that there's a new generation. And she's taught me new things that I've forgotten. Like, when you're on holiday and see what it's like to see a shell or go into the water for the first time.

Carine Roitfeld

#17. Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#18. El Paso is parasitic off of Juarez rather than vice versa.

Tyler Cowen

#19. And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad
Unless they lose control of ugly thoughts
That drive them out to jabber among the trees.

Siegfried Sassoon

#20. Juarez had become a failed city. The mayor of Juarez lived in El Paso. Not only did he not live in his own city, he didn't live in his own country. You had all these kids out of school who didn't want to work because they saw their mothers toiling in jobs for hardly any cash.

Beto O'Rourke

#21. Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

M. Russell Ballard

#22. Young certainly wouldn't have expected to be ambushed by three yuppies gone bad in El Paso, Texas. . . . young had never before been taken down by people wearing expensive shoes and tailored suits...not physically, anyway. He'd gone up against plenty of sharks in Washington DC,....

J. Fally

#23. Because it was natural, could he not see that it was marvelous? Poor creature!

Andre Gide

#24. We went from crop to crop, field to field. And my father had that army truck, a 1940s army truck from Fort Bliss, El Paso.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#25. It's the youth movement we have. A lot of young guys with a lot of passion. It brings the fun back to the game.

Tim Hudson

#26. Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl ...

Marty Robbins

#27. How can you miss someone who's right beside you?

Ann Aguirre

#28. El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America.

Beto O'Rourke

#29. I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get in that room and start taking some of those verses off.' Yeah, I took six verses off.

Loretta Lynn

#30. We in El Paso and Juarez are literally one community. There's no separation; there's no DMZ; there's no buffer.

Beto O'Rourke