A Quote by Carrie Fisher

[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.

Carrie Fisher

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Carrie Fisher
American - Actress
October 21, 1956 - December 27, 2016

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

Ron Stallworth

We’re on the moon,” Sadie murmured. “El Paso, Texas,” Bast corrected.

Rick Riordan

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

Sam Donaldson

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

Marty Robbins

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.

Khalid

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

Calamity Jane

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.

Sam Elliott

My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash.

Frances McDormand

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.

Cedric Bixler-Zavala

If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus

Lee Trevino

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

Ron Stallworth

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.

Sam Donaldson

In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.

Laura Mullen

I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.