Tucson Quotes:

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

topic: Names, Fats, Fallen, Tucson, Bonnets

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

- Andrew Weil

source: "Pressing The Bar" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2013.

topic: Talking, Years, Two, Tucson, Physical Things

Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote.

- Barack Obama

topic: Gun, Simple, Community, Aurora, Creeks

I want to get away from the social vampires in Tucson. The people who have no lives of their own and meet me and know who I am and feel entitled to say negative things. I have good friends here, especially in the bands. But a lot of it is just like high school.

- Neko Case

topic: School, Good Friend, Who I Am, Tucson

And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.

- Erika Slezak

topic: Beauty, Country, Morning, Tucson

The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.

- Gary McCord

topic: Sunday, Play, Feelings, Tucson

The Tucson speech [of Barack Obama] was brilliant, and I'm so angry at Republicans for jumping on him because you have to give credit. Part of being successful is to give credit to people who you may not disagree with when they do well.

- Frank Luntz

topic: Successful, Jumping, People, Tucson

Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way people, including me, enjoy talking knowledgeably about how the world will end. I drove to Tucson and saw the desert flowering on either side of the road. And I glanced at my spam to see what people wanted to sell me these days.

- Rae Armantrout

topic: Lying, Book, Talking, Spam, Tucson

I want you to go back to Tucson and bring me the bottle of tequila I keep in my liquor cabinet. And don't scare Tim." Volusian remained motionless in that way of his. "My mistress grows increasingly creative in her ways to torment me." "I thought you'd appreciate it." "Only in so much as it inspires me to equally creative means to rip you apart when I am able to break free of these bonds and finally destroy you." "You see? There's a silver lining to everything. Now hurry up.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2009). “Thorn Queen”, p.191, Kensington Publishing Corp.

topic: Rip, Mean, Appreciate, Tequila, Tucson

If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.

- Wayne LaPierre

source: "The 25 'Best' Quotes of CPAC 2011". Wayne LaPierre's remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2011 in Orlando, Florida, www.esquire.com. February 14, 2011.

topic: Gabby Giffords, Tucson

My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. Id go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.

- Kate Walsh

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Queens, Kings, Jobs, Dairy Queen, Cashiers

You win all the Tucsons, all the Kemps, all the Iron City Opens you can, nobody remembers. You win a Masters, nobody ever forgets

- Bob Goalby

topic: Golf, Winning, Cities, Tucson