* "Heat, ma’am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones." - Sydney Smith, Lady Holland’s Memoir
* You know you're from Arizona when you drive two miles around a parking lot looking for a shady place - even in the dead of winter. - Local Saying
* Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter - and hell spends the summer. - Local saying
* Once, it was so damned dry, the bushes followed the dogs around. - Nancy Dedera
