El Paso Quotes:

In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.

- Laura Mullen

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Museums, Texas, Confusing, Clarifying, El Paso

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

- Marty Robbins

source: Song: El Paso

topic: Girl, Texas, Mexican, West Texas, El Paso

We’re on the moon,” Sadie murmured. “El Paso, Texas,” Bast corrected.

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

topic: Moon, Texas, Sadie, El Paso

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

- Calamity Jane

source: Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

topic: Texas, August, Married, El Paso

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

topic: Night, Cities, Texas, City Hall, El Paso

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

topic: Texas, Dallas, Different, Texan, El Paso

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

- Sam Donaldson

topic: Texas, Hospitality, Born, El Paso, Family Farms

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

topic: Rooms, Six, Yeah, El Paso

The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative Border Patrol leaders such as Silvestre Reyes with Operation Hold the Line in El Paso. Operation Hold the Line demonstrated that a strategic use of personnel and technology can combine at our land border, as it has for many years at our airports, to reduce unauthorized crossings.

- Barbara Jordan

topic: Technology, Airports, Years, Personnel, El Paso

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

topic: Mexican, Remember, Said, Horus, El Paso

[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.

- Carrie Fisher

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Texas, White, Grandparent, White Trash, El Paso