Border Town Quotes

I spent two months in a jail once. In a Mexican border town.

El Paso is the final Wild, Wild West city.

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.

When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis.

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

I grew up in a small village on the border of Hampshire and Surrey. When people ask, I tend to say that I'm from Haslemere.

I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception.

I'm just a kid from El Paso, Texas.

El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America.

Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor.

I grew up really close to Alabama, about 10 minutes from the Alabama line. We'd make trips to Alabama, and I feel at home there.

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

I love multi-cam. I grew up in a border town in South Texas right next to Mexico, a million miles away from this world... and to me, multi-cams are just like theater.

Because I grew up in McAllen, we would watch Televisa a lot.

I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San Antonio for generations, sometimes seven generations, their families are from there, and they are of Mexican descent, and they've never gone farther than the border.