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

  Museums, Texas, Confusing

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Marty Robbins

  Girl, Texas, Mexican

  Song: El Paso

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

  Rick Riordan

  Moon, Texas, Sadie

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

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

  Calamity Jane

  Texas, August, Married

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

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• 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

  Night, Texas, Cities

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• 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

  Texas, Dallas, Different

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

  Sam Donaldson

  Texas, Hospitality, Born

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• 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

  Rooms, Six, Said

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• 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

  Technology, Airports, Years

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• 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

  Mexican, Remember, Said

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

  Carrie Fisher

  Texas, White, Grandparent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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