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I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up. — Sandy Duncan

I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever. — Kelly Clarkson

While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it. — John Sharp

As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards. — George W. Bush

I lived in Texas for 10 years. — John Hawkes

Just 'cause you're following a
well-marked trail don't mean
that whoever made it knew where
they were goin'. — Texas Bix Bender

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am. — Adam Dunn

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.' — Kinky Friedman

President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas. — Bianca Jagger

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians. — Jessica Savitch

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it. — Ann Richards

I don't want my hair to be ridiculous. But in Texas I do wear a hat a lot, so I probably have hat-head more than I'm aware of. — Thomas Haden Church

Not anymore, ese. What ju was doing? Ju didn't go to work today, but here ju are lazy ass drinking cerveza like nothing. — Sai Marie Johnson

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults. — Molly Ivins

Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas. — Christina Milian

I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess. — Erin Cummings

Australia is really a lot like Texas if Texas were mad at you and drunk and maybe had a knife. — Jenny Lawson

See, lady, that's what happens to snow in Texas. It- freaking- melts. — Rick Riordan

I want to fight the wussification of the State of Texas. I want to rise and shine and bring back the glory. — Kinky Friedman

I'd hate to think our whole planet was being judged by Texas. — Stephen King

The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important ... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas. — Kinky Friedman

I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach. — St. Vincent

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater. — Janine Turner

always close by when you're in a tight squeeze.
Dn't let the sun set on a quarrel with a pard.
A good pard will at least pretend — Texas Bix Bender

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western. — Jensen Ackles

I'm a pageant girl from Texas, so I like makeup and hairspray. And the smoky eye? I think I was born with it! — Eva Longoria

Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points. — Texas Bix Bender

In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back. — Steve Stockman

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Every Texan has a project and every picnic has fire-ants. — Beryl Dov

When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.' — Ted Cruz

That guy punched me in the face for not liking what I said. I thought this was a country where you can say what you think, eh? — Sai Marie Johnson

Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind. — T.R. Fehrenbach

The best value translations of the Poetic Edda are by Hollander from Texas Uni Press, or by Larrington of Oxford Uni Press. — Sweyn Plowright

I thought justice ground real slow in Texas." "Only if you plead not guilty. — Lee Child

George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam. — Peter Jennings

Am not at all sure how we should tackle such a crisis, but on the basis of what we know so far, I would suggest, as a start, quarantining Texas. I — Bill Bryson

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it?s magical. — Pamela Ribon

We're on the moon," Sadie murmured. "El Paso, Texas," Bast corrected. — Rick Riordan

To me, Texas is Austin, a bunch of cool people trying to make a difference. — Bill Hicks

I want to be governor [of Texas] because I need the closet space. — Kinky Friedman

You're bullshitting."
"Don't they call it horseshitting down here? — Abigail Roux

Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher. — Dan Rather

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

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute. — Jessica Savitch

A man who listened? Had she found the eighth wonder of the world? — Carolyn Brown

Spanish territory in Florida and Texas - the — Henry Kissinger

I'm from East Texas, yes. — Margo Martindale

That's what happens when it snows in Texas lady. It. Freaking. Melts. — Rick Riordan

My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects. — Bella Thorne

RON BRACKIN'S TEXAS GLOSSARY "Peccadello" n. roadkill. — Ron Brackin

When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas. — J. Frank Dobie

No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and keeps on a-comin'. — Captain Bill McDonald Texas Ranger

Everything I ever will be is because of Texas A&M University. — John Sharp

Which means that you stand a greater chance of dying while dealing crack in a Chicago housing project than you do while sitting on death row in Texas. — Anonymous

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture. — Tommy Lee Jones

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12. — Richard Roeper

My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front. — Evan Sayet

No. It was almost impossible to electrocute someone these days, unless you were the governor of Texas. — Louise Penny

Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams — Larry McMurtry

Whenever Gansey talked to British people about America, they always seemed to think he meant Texas. — Maggie Stiefvater

Took your car, drove to Texas. Sorry honey, but I suspected, you and I can't cry anymore. — Sheryl Crow

When in darkness ... strike a match — John Paul Warren

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision! — Sam Houston

the Texas stars shining down like rattlesnake eyes showing in a deep, dark wood. — Joe R. Lansdale

I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with my dogs and write music and go out with my friends. — Haylie Duff

I'm born and raised in Houston, Texas, but Wisconsin is always going to be a home for me, and I'll always be back. — Donald Driver

I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington. — Kay Bailey Hutchison

Texas. A ring of boys drew closer around the younger one they had been pushing and shoving. — Sara Orwig

He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave. — Texas Guinan

Daddy, are we democraps or repelicans? Lainie daintily placed her fork down and gave her brother a stern look. "We're Texans silly. — Kellie Coates Gilbert

Texas's main exports are cotton, oil, and preachers. — Sam Torode

I feel very at home in L.A., I think, because it's dry, and there's sun, like the West Texas I grew up in. — Stephen Graham Jones

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together. — John Bruton

The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt. — Texas Bix Bender

Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far. — Texas Guinan

A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much. — Anne Lamott

Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team. — Bum Phillips

There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world. — Ray Thompson

I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat. — Erin Wasson

Lainie, of course, would never turn gray. No respectable woman from Texas ever would."
~ A Woman of Fortune — Kellie Coates Gilbert

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate. — Jeb Bush

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. — Ann Richards

1,000 out of the world's 6,000 languages, crammed into an area only slightly larger than that of Texas, — Jared Diamond

The trouble with Texas Baptists is that we do not hold them under water long enough. — William Cowper Brann

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease. — Calvin Trillin

If you kill someone in Texas, we'll kill ya back. — Ron White

Dating and getting to really know a woman is a different game. Kind of like the difference in Monopoly and Texas Hold 'Em. — Carolyn Brown

They're really competitive at drama in Texas. — Lynn Collins

Damn, she was getting so tangled up by guilt and desire. ~Nikki in Texas Tangle — Leah Braemel

There will be a whole new spirit blowing through Texas. There will be a smile on everybody's face and a chill up the spine of every politician. — Kinky Friedman

Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States. — Adlai Stevenson

To this day, all I know is there are between two and four openings down there and that the set up inside looks vaguely like the Texas Longhorns logo. — Tina Fey

Never forget, son, when you represent Texas, always go first class. — James A. Michener

If I wanted your opinion, I'd beat it outta ya. - Walker Texas Ranger — Chuck Norris

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas ... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories. — Juan Felipe Herrera

When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat. — Jim Hightower

There's no Texas barbecue as good as Fort Worth barbecue, — Stephen King

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963. — Pierre Salinger

I've never seen 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', I've never seen 'Halloween', I've never seen any of the 'Friday the 13ths.' — Lin Shaye

To be beautiful in Texas, you had to be blonde and blue-eyed and have a name like Ann. — Sarah Shahi