Arizona Quotes

The trip across Arizona is 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

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

Fort Yuma is probably the hottest place on earth. The thermometer stays at one hundred and twenty in the shade there all the time - except when it varies and goes higher. It is a U.S. military post, and its occupants get so used to the terrific heat that they suffer without it. There is a tradition... that a very, very wicked soldier died there, once, and of course, went straight to the hottest corner of perdition  - and the next day he telegraphed back for his blankets.
~Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872, chapter LVI

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

I'll take heat rash over frost bite any day.
~Ken Travous