New Mexico has been spoken about by many people.
This US State has shown an unmistakable effort in terms of restoring the environment. At the same time, many people have talked about their early life in New Mexico.
People such as Lew Wallace, Bill Richardson, Susana Martinez, Garrett Hedlund, and Campbell Scott have given the world some inspiring quotes about New Mexico over the past many years. The state has the motto of crescit eundo, meaning it grows as it goes.
The state is made special and interesting by its national park and it is defined by its culture!
Inspiring New Mexico Quotes
Why are there so many words of inspiration for this state? Let's read on to find out from some famous personalities who had spent time there.
“While I was running for governor of New Mexico, the Republicans were totally inclusive of me; the party was open-armed, but they never thought I'd win. I delivered in a really big way; I exceeded their expectations and think I'm still highly regarded by the GOP in New Mexico.”
- Gary Johnson.
“Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.”
― 'Death Comes for the Archbishop', Willa Cather.
“Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.”
— Robert Toombs.
“When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit in nicely. If you don't feel anything, then maybe you don't belong here.”
― 'Daniel's Esperanza', Veronica Randolph Batterson.
“The black rock was sharp-edged, hot, and hard as corundum; it seemed not merely alien but impervious to life. Yet on the southern face of almost every rock the lichens grew, yellow, rusty-brown, yellow-green, like patches of dirty paint daubed on the stone.”
― 'The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale In A New Time', Edward Abbey.
Interesting New Mexico Quotes
(Many have spoken about the effort to restore gray wolves in New Mexico!)
“What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf.”
— Alice Cooper.
“Carlsbad Caverns National Park is best described as living artwork.”
― 'A Year In The National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip', Stefanie Payne.
“Yes, Sangre de Cristo; but no matter how scarlet the sunset, those red hills never became vermillion, but a more and more intense rose-carnelian; not the colour of living blood, the Bishop had often reflected, but the colour of the dried blood of saints and martyres preserved in old churches in Rome, which liquefies upon occasion.”
― 'Death Comes For The Archbishop', Willa Cather.
“In lieu of letting go of our trauma and rather than healing completely, in my experience, we learn how to carry it and there are some days when it is heavier than others.
Some days, I hardly know it is there, distracted as I am by present joys and excitement; while other days, the burden is cripplingly-heavy and I can hardly breathe under the weight of grief.”
― 'To Lose The Madness: Field Notes On Trauma, Loss And Radical Authenticity', L.M. Browning.
"I'm not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It's a positive agenda."
― Rush Limbaugh.
Must-Know New Mexico Quotes
Here are some celebrities who have had deep connections with New Mexico.
“I know how to create and make people feel something. Honestly, if I didn't do this, I would just have some minimum-wage job in New Mexico, and I would go out on the weekends and make just enough money to pay my insurance and pay for a couple beers, and that would be it.”
— Freddie Prinze, Jr.
“But there's only one other person besides me in the Monterey Bay area who could pick up on spectral sound waves-especially now that Jesse is going to school so far away-and that person happened to be away at a seminarian retreat in New Mexico.
I knew because Father Dominic likes to keep his present (and former) students up to date on his daily activities on Facebook.The day my old high school principal started his own Facebook account was the day I swore off social media forever. So far this has worked out fine since I prefer face-to-face interactions.
It's easier to tell when people are lying.”
— Meg Cabot.
“When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here ... in the Southwest ... I still live in New Mexico.”
— Rudolfo Anaya.
“In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes.”
— Susana Martinez.
“The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico.”
— Heather Wilson.
I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of myself in nature, a wholeness and I feel nowhere else.
I think people should live where praying is most immediate. That`s why I live in New Mexico. The physical terrain, the feeling, the environment and culture improve my life just by waking up there.
— Val Kilmer.
“The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it.”
— Bruce Catton.
“The remarkable photographs by Craig Varjabedian are not only beautiful but also extremely valuable documents of architecture, culture, and lifestyle . . .”
― 'From Adams to Stieglitz: Pioneers of Modern Photography', Beaumont Newhall.
"All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico."
— Lew Wallace.
"I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place."
— Campbell Scott.
“They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again.
They would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.”― 'Desert Solitaire', Edward Abbey.
Best New Mexico Quotes
There are famous personalities who had life-changing experiences in New Mexico. Take a look.
"Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river."
— Mark Twain.
"I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had."
— D. H. Lawrence.
“I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right ... . Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico.
It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.”
— Charles Bukowski.
I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment."
— William S. Burroughs.
"I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the school bus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life."
— Garrett Hedlund.
"I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory."
— Bill Richardson.
“Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold, silver, turquoise, and copper beneath its surface they carved up the territory like children sneaking to the fridge and slicing off a chocolate cake bit by bit: hoping at first that the loss wouldn't be noticed but ultimately not really caring.”
— Victoria Finlay.
"My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7."
— Val Kilmer.
“They were turning now, panning past the Sandias, the black-green crags and rocky faces, the ribbon of road leading to the white crest. Amina looked down on Albuquerque, the light bouncing off the sprawling tile of houses and pools, the cars running along the highways like busy insects."
― 'The Sleepwalker's Guide To Dancing', Mira Jacob.
"I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico."
— Freddie Prinze Jr.
