Top Texas Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Robb Walsh
I didn't drive eleven hours across the state of Texas to watch my cholesterol.
- Robb Walsh
Collection: Texas
Image of Steven Hall
Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.
- Steven Hall
Collection: Texas
Image of Sam Houston
Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas
- Sam Houston
Collection: Texas
Image of Sam Houston
Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.
- Sam Houston
Collection: Texas
Image of Paul Reed Smith
It used to be that I could talk to someone in Texas and nobody would hear about it. Now, the moment I open my mouth it's all over the world. The second I say something, guys in Germany know about it. It's basically a wonderful thing because more information is spread, but you have to keep your mouth shut.
- Paul Reed Smith
Collection: Texas
Image of Shane Carruth
I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.
- Shane Carruth
Collection: Texas
Image of Doug Sahm
You just can’t live in Texas/if you don’t have a lot of soul.
- Doug Sahm
Collection: Texas
Image of Jim Hightower
When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.
- Jim Hightower
Collection: Texas
Image of Angie Harmon
And, Bruce and I are pretty close as well. We're both from Texas and we both understand each other. When I'm having trouble with a scene, I'll just go over to him and be like, "I have no idea what's happening here. What are we doing?" He's just been such a wonderful sounding board and, obviously, he's a tremendously talented actor.
- Angie Harmon
Collection: Texas
Image of Barbara Jordan
I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.
- Barbara Jordan
Collection: Texas
Image of Jay R. Ferguson
Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.
- Jay R. Ferguson
Collection: Texas
Image of Molly Ivins
In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.
- Molly Ivins
Collection: Texas
Image of Tommy Lee Jones
Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders.
- Tommy Lee Jones
Collection: Texas
Image of Kay Bailey Hutchison
Saying youre from Texas makes you kind of proud.
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
Collection: Texas
Image of Sylvia Poggioli
[Pope Francis] symbolically took the migrant south-north route to the United States by going to Cuidad Juarez on the border with Texas, and there he spoke of the human dignity of immigrants.
- Sylvia Poggioli
Collection: Texas
Image of Carl Gardner
Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.
- Carl Gardner
Collection: Texas
Image of Larry McMurtry
Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
- Larry McMurtry
Collection: Texas
Image of Kevin Fowler
Only in Texas can mesquite have its own festival, then there's a crawfish festival, a festival for strawberries, everything has its own festival, with each town having their own yearly thing.
- Kevin Fowler
Collection: Texas
Image of Bryan Hayes
On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel.
- Bryan Hayes
Collection: Texas
Image of John Steinbeck
Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: Texas
Image of John Waters
The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.
- John Waters
Collection: Texas
Image of John Steinbeck
Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: Texas
Image of Ron White
If you kill someone in Texas, we'll kill ya back.
- Ron White
Collection: Texas
Image of Dan Rather
Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco.
- Dan Rather
Collection: Texas
Image of Bum Phillips
I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.
- Bum Phillips
Collection: Texas
Image of Robert Scheer
We pick governors from states where governors don't do anything, like Jimmy Carter from Georgia, George W. Bush from Texas.
- Robert Scheer
Collection: Texas
Image of Willie Nelson
There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.
- Willie Nelson
Collection: Texas
Image of Edward Abbey
Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.
- Edward Abbey
Collection: Texas
Image of Bill McKibben
If there's horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we're no longer able to call it an act of God, or a natural disaster, or something like that, the way we could have through all of human history until 35 or 40 years ago.
- Bill McKibben
Collection: Texas
Image of Barack Obama
The fact is every single day in the ordinary American people, America's families have to make decisions about their families and that should be made by them, not by the Texas or United States.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Texas
Image of Henry Rollins
Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.
- Henry Rollins
Collection: Texas
Image of Ralph Nader
It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.
- Ralph Nader
Collection: Texas
Image of Rick Riordan
That's what happens when it snows in Texas lady. It. Freaking. Melts.
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Texas
Image of John Steinbeck
A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: Texas
Image of John Steinbeck
Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: Texas
Image of Conan O'Brien
In a new videotape message, Texas Gov. Rick Perry urges his supporters to follow him on 'Tweeter.' After hearing about it, John McCain laughed and said, “What an idiot! It's 'The Tweeter.''
- Conan O'Brien
Collection: Texas
Image of John Steinbeck
Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: Texas
Image of Jeff Bridges
It was fortunate for all of us to have Joaquin Jackson, who is a very renowned Texas Ranger, on board. He spent quite a few days with us on set and he added a lot to it for me on what it's like to be a Texas Ranger.
- Jeff Bridges
Collection: Texas
Image of Chris Hardwick
I have opinions about the differences between Memphis barbecue and Texas barbecue. Put me in the kitchen and you'll see how Southern I can be.
- Chris Hardwick
Collection: Texas
Image of Lee Trevino
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
Collection: Texas
Image of Dan Savage
Natural isn't something I get called a lot in Texas.
- Dan Savage
Collection: Texas
Image of John Steinbeck
There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold...Surely Texas is such a place.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: Texas
Image of Andrew Jackson
We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
- Andrew Jackson
Collection: Texas
Image of Yogi Berra
Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election]
- Yogi Berra
Collection: Texas
Image of Hunter S. Thompson
And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.
- Hunter S. Thompson
Collection: Texas
Image of Rick Perry
The citizens of America and the citizens of Texas expect to be able to live in safety in their communities. That's what the rule of law is truly all about.
- Rick Perry
Collection: Texas
Image of Rick Perry
Mexico is an important trading partner, it's the number one trading partner for the state of Texas. We have had dealings with them, shared a border with them. We have had our challenges, but at the end of the day we want a good relationship with Mexico.
- Rick Perry
Collection: Texas
Image of Michael Caine
My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.
- Michael Caine
Collection: Texas
Image of Hillary Clinton
You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - "all hat and no cattle." Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle.
- Hillary Clinton
Collection: Texas