Top Texas Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Texas quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Wil Wheaton
I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.
- Wil Wheaton
Collection: Texas
Image of Calvin Trillin
I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.
- Calvin Trillin
Collection: Texas
Image of Ron White
In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.
- Ron White
Collection: Texas
Image of Charley Pride
If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.
- Charley Pride
Collection: Texas
Image of Ann Richards
There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.
- Ann Richards
Collection: Texas
Image of Jenny Lawson
When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.
- Jenny Lawson
Collection: Texas
Image of Jacqueline Kelly
By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.
- Jacqueline Kelly
Collection: Texas
Image of Devendra Banhart
When I go to vote for anything, I always pencil in the proposition to return California and Texas to Mexico. I'm the one person that's voting for that one.
- Devendra Banhart
Collection: Texas
Image of Van Cliburn
I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.
- Van Cliburn
Collection: Texas
Image of Amaury Nolasco
When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.
- Amaury Nolasco
Collection: Texas
Image of Judd Nelson
Fandango is not really a Western. It's really just set in Texas. It's a road picture. And then I did one that hasn't come out yet called Kreep, which is set in Texas, but it's not really a Western. But it has a more rural-Texas feel to it.
- Judd Nelson
Collection: Texas
Image of Katee Sackhoff
If you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.
- Katee Sackhoff
Collection: Texas
Image of H. Beam Piper
Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.
- H. Beam Piper
Collection: Texas
Image of Susan Elizabeth Phillips
This is America. We’re entitled to our opinions.” “Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Collection: Texas
Image of Nolan Ryan
I never found a place where I wanted to live more than Alvin (Texas).
- Nolan Ryan
Collection: Texas
Image of George Strait
All my ex's live in Texas, And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be, But all my ex's live in Texas, Therefore I reside in Tennessee
- George Strait
Collection: Texas
Image of Dave Liebman
North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.
- Dave Liebman
Collection: Texas
Image of Pimp C
Atlanta is not the South. Atlanta is not the South, gotdamn it, when you go to Atlanta what does your clock say? When you get off the plane from Los Angeles or Texas, what time do it be over there? Atlanta is East Coast time. You niggas ain't in the South.
- Pimp C
Collection: Texas
Image of J. Frank Dobie
When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.
- J. Frank Dobie
Collection: Texas
Image of Guy Clark
Its just something Ive always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.
- Guy Clark
Collection: Texas
Image of Christopher Cross
I came out to California from Texas, to the Haight, and the Fillmore and all that stuff, and totally got the bug.
- Christopher Cross
Collection: Texas
Image of Lyle Lovett
That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.
- Lyle Lovett
Collection: Texas
Image of Denton Cooley
The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also the best in the United States.
- Denton Cooley
Collection: Texas
Image of Mike Sexton
The name of the game is no-limit Texas Hold'em, the game that takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master.
- Mike Sexton
Collection: Texas
Image of Lloyd Bentsen
Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.
- Lloyd Bentsen
Collection: Texas
Image of Jackson Rathbone
I miss Texas so bad. That’s the hard part about being out here in L.A., trying to pursue acting and music and lighting and production and stuff. It takes a lot of time out from your personal life, and I can only get back to Texas three times a year at most. It’s tough.
- Jackson Rathbone
Collection: Texas
Image of Davy Crockett
You can all go to hell. I’m going to Texas.
- Davy Crockett
Collection: Texas
Image of Selena
Anywhere in the world you go, you find racism, discrimination. Not just in the United States, or in Texas. It's very sad for me, but that's the way it is. I can't change the world by myself. I, being Hispanic, have also faced discrimination. But … the world keeps turning.
- Selena
Collection: Texas
Image of Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
I play American and World music, Texas style.
- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Collection: Texas
Image of Sissy Spacek
I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.
- Sissy Spacek
Collection: Texas
Image of Wendy Davis
The best of Texas is yet to come.
- Wendy Davis
Collection: Texas
Image of Wendy Davis
The last thing Texas women need in their lives is Greg Abbott.
- Wendy Davis
Collection: Texas
Image of John Cornyn
Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.
- John Cornyn
Collection: Texas
Image of James R. Thompson
At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.
- James R. Thompson
Collection: Texas
Image of Josh Beckett
Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.
- Josh Beckett
Collection: Texas
Image of Edward Smith
Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best."
- Edward Smith
Collection: Texas
Image of Bob Corritore
Texas Red is about the biggest blues hellraiser you'll ever meet.
- Bob Corritore
Collection: Texas
Image of Percy Foreman
I'm often asked why there is such a great variation among sentences imposed by Texas judges. I can only quote the Texas judge who was asked why a killer sometimes doesn't even get indicted and a cattle thief can get ten years. The judge answered: "A lot of fellows ought to be shot, but we don't have any cows that need stealin".
- Percy Foreman
Collection: Texas
Image of Michael Brecker
Once again, in the fine tradition of North Texas Lab Bands, this is truly a superb band. Under the artful leadership of Neil Slater, these great musicians have managed to combine small group "openness" with the swinging precision of a classic big band. Very enjoyable!
- Michael Brecker
Collection: Texas
Image of Pat Mora
Your Texas is no different than my Texas.
- Pat Mora
Collection: Texas
Image of Bobby Lee
Texas is the crossroads of the world. Everything here is big.
- Bobby Lee
Collection: Texas
Image of Rick Neuheisel
I know how to become a top 5 teamJust play Texas A&M.
- Rick Neuheisel
Collection: Texas
Image of Bill W. Clayton
A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.
- Bill W. Clayton
Collection: Texas
Image of Ray Thompson
There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.
- Ray Thompson
Collection: Texas
Image of Ian Frazier
Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
- Ian Frazier
Collection: Texas
Image of Evan Sayet
My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.
- Evan Sayet
Collection: Texas
Image of Mark Teixeira
There's no question that I love playing in Texas. I love the fans. I love everything about Texas.
- Mark Teixeira
Collection: Texas
Image of Edna Ferber
I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.
- Edna Ferber
Collection: Texas
Image of Calvin Jillson
Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.
- Calvin Jillson
Collection: Texas