Top 25 El Paso Quotes

Part of the job for me and others from El Paso who live along the border is to dispel the myths about how supposedly dangerous the border is.

I’ve got to thank the city of El Paso for standing behind me.

We in El Paso and Juarez are literally one community. There’s no separation; there’s no DMZ; there’s no buffer.

I moved from New York to El Paso in 2015, just before my senior year. I was super nervous. My mom, she’s in the Army, and she got stationed at Fort Bliss. We packed everything up and drove all the way to El Paso.

I was born in ’72, and my dad was county judge of El Paso from ’82 to ’86. He was just as independent as he could be, and had an amazing joy in life and in being with people, which, from my perspective as a kid, was that he was always going to do the right thing, and damn the consequences – political or otherwise.

Growing up, everyone around me in El Paso, Texas, was all about watching ‘The Wall’ and, you know, ‘Money’ and ‘Dark Side of the Moon,’ which are fantastic records, of course.

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

The thing about going back to El Paso, it’s overwhelming sometimes. I look at the support that I get and the success that I’ve had, and I can’t walk anywhere without being spotted. My hair might be the biggest crime in this situation.

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

El Paso is the final Wild, Wild West city.

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.

I didn’t feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso.

Those were hard times, but I loved living there. I would walk on the tracks, hopping, skipping. I enjoyed the neighborhood, I enjoyed El Paso. I remember being chased by tumbleweeds on windy days; they came up to my neck.

El Paso is where I started. I don’t feel like I’d be making the music I’m making now if I hadn’t gone there.

Even though I wasn’t born or raised in El Paso, it’ll always be a part of me until the day that I die.

It all started in a local park in El Paso called Madeleine Park. At a ditch, a very small ditch, that everybody used to go skateboarding in. It was me and Jim Ward and an acoustic guitar. He and I constructed the very first phases of At The Drive In.

I don’t know that my colleagues in Congress really care about what happens here in El Paso and in Juarez. They care what happens in their home district.

I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.

I’m just a kid from El Paso, Texas.

I went to school with a lot of kids whose fathers and mothers were part of the El Paso black history.

We went from crop to crop, field to field. And my father had that army truck, a 1940s army truck from Fort Bliss, El Paso.

The border is safe; it’s secure. El Paso is the safest city in America. Let’s own that. Let’s be proud of that. And then, I think, good policy can follow from that, better outcomes included.

You know, I know a lot of lifeguards. Both my parents were lifeguards at a lake in El Paso, Texas. I was a lifeguard in a swimming pool in Portland, Ore. And I have known and met and befriended a number of oceangoing lifeguards in California where I live.

Juarez had become a failed city. The mayor of Juarez lived in El Paso. Not only did he not live in his own city, he didn’t live in his own country. You had all these kids out of school who didn’t want to work because they saw their mothers toiling in jobs for hardly any cash.

In terms of immigration, we’re seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, ‘Comprehensive Immigration Reform,’ and they don’t totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it’s part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.