Vegas Sayings and Quotes

Las Vegas is a city of excess, glitz, and glamour. The city’s entertainment, nightlife, and food scene is unmatched. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and humorous quotes about Vegas, America’s gambling capital.

There is no place like it. It is literally a beacon of civilization. Peering from space at their cloud-speckled blue and blood rust planet, astronauts make out the lights of Las Vegas before anything else, a first sign of life on earth. Barbara Land
Long before it was even a town-railroad stop established in the place was called Las Vegas. Spanish-speaking traders from New Mexico, on their way to California in 1892, strayed from the Old Spanish Trail blazed in 1776 by Spanish missionaries. Barbara Land
Thousands of years before it had a Spanish name, the valley that became Las Vegas attracted thirsty travelers. Barbara Land
Las Vegas was built on someone else's money, and I'm one of those many someone else's. Joseph Julius Bonkowski
I seemed to have mistaken money for the desert when I was in Las Vegas. Joseph Julius Bonkowski
In Vegas you can't find a good game of Russian roulette. Joseph Julius Bonkowski
Las Vegas adopted a pace which was to persist into the 1980s - a tempo which is casual, yet hectic. Ralph J. Roske
Las Vegas liked to consider itself a living remnant of the Old West. Ralph J. Roske
In the late 1930s, Las Vegas gambling seemed little more than a secondary force for prosperity, behind chamber of commerce-promoted tourism based on the western motif. Ralph J. Roske
The first owners of casinos in downtown Las Vegas were 'locals' who had neither the capital nor the expertise to run large scale casinos. Ralph J. Roske
Most significant for Las Vegas' gambling growth was the migration to Las Vegas, late in the thirties, of experienced gambling operators, mostly from southern California. Ralph J. Roske
Las Vegas Valley is a flat---a very flat---stretch of about 500 square mile of dry desert land surrounded by smooth, treeless brown mountains. David Littlejohn
The industry in Las Vegas is casino gambling, which its representatives would like you to call the Gaming Industry. David Littlejohn
Las Vegas claims to be the number-one tourist destination in the U.S., with more than 30 million visitors a year (although Orlando and New York continue to make the same claim). David Littlejohn
Las Vegas has more than hotel rooms than any other city in the world. David Littlejohn
Las Vegas is the kind of place that generates urban legends, which then become an ineradicable part of its image. David Littlejohn
Las Vegas is a 'town like any other,' full of good-hearted, hard-working family people who are active in churches and community organizations, who work for a great number of good causes, and whose children join the Scouts and play Little League ball. David Littlejohn
There was mystery and myth to be found, I was convinced, under 'fabulous' Las Vegas. Matthew O'Brien
Las Vegas is unique. We have casinos. We have millions of tourists. You're always going to have homelessness here, because of the gambling and alcohol. You can't look at other cities and see how they're handling it. It's just different. Matthew O'Brien
Living in Las Vegas required me to be nourished by something other than slot machines and the night life. Donn Trenner
Both Las Vegas and Los Angeles have always lacked a certain sophistication you'll find in New York, but working in Vegas was great. Donn Trenner
Regulars who go to Las Vegas usually have two goals: what can I win and what can I get for free? Donn Trenner