Rio Grande Quotes

#1. In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.

Karolyn Grimes

#2. My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land.

Ken Salazar

#3. A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.

Ben Elliot

#4. I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my star further.

Jack Kerouac

#5. I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.

Edward Abbey

#6. Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

Ted Nugent

#7. I love the Rio Grande Valley. I always say it's home - Texas is home. I've been out in L.A. a little over ten years, and I still get so excited when I go back home. It just feels comfortable; it makes me smile.

Cristela Alonzo

#8. When you look at the Pueblo communities along the Rio Grande, when you talk to the Navajo people, the Ute people, and certainly the native peoples of California who still have their communities intact, it is what they have always known: that we are not apart from nature but a part of it.

Terry Tempest Williams

#9. Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

Barack Obama

#10. The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria, it's in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security.

Ted Cruz

#11. The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.

Carol Moseley Braun

#12. The only way to make sense of the world is to accept the fact that it absolutely makes no sense.

Lourd De Veyra

#13. If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

Robert Bly

#14. Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#15. Come at once if convenient- if inconvenient come all the same.
- S. H.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#16. Winning coaches must treat mistakes like copperheads in the bedclothes - avoid them with all the energy you can muster.

Darrell Royal