Well, the trip from then on across Arizona and east of Los Angeles was 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
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
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
My favorite color… the seam of a desert horizon. – Eileen Tabios
Once, it was so damned dry, the bushes followed the dogs around. – Nancy Dedera
…letting the desert scratch its own thorny poetry on the enormous moon. – Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall
In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen. – Mehmet Murat ildan
In Arizona, shade trees are your best friends… and occasionally the basis of small civil wars over parking. – Terri Guillemets
You know you live in Phoenix when the cold-water faucet is hotter than the hot-water faucet. – Local saying
You know you live in Phoenix when you can drive four hours in any one direction and never leave the Valley. – Author unknown
Land of extremes. Land of contrasts. Land of surprises. Land of contradictions…. That is Arizona. – Federal Writers Project, Arizona: The Grand Canyon State, 1956
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. – Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.
You know you live in Phoenix when you are willing to park three 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
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June? – Edward Abbey
[T]he University of Arizona, a very fine school, well liked and spoken of by everybody that knows about it. – Will Rogers (1879–1935) [Go Wildcats! —tεᖇᖇ¡&#
