Texas Quotes
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Texas Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas.
— Christina Milian
Australia is really a lot like Texas if Texas were mad at you and drunk and maybe had a knife.
— Jenny Lawson
I want to fight the wussification of the State of Texas. I want to rise and shine and bring back the glory.
— Kinky Friedman
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 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
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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
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
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I want to be governor [of Texas] because I need the closet space.
— Kinky Friedman
News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
— Jessica Savitch
Spanish territory in Florida and Texas - the
— Henry Kissinger
I'm from East Texas, yes.
— Margo Martindale
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
As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
— Tommy Lee Jones
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
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
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
There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.
— Ray Thompson
Lainie, of course, would never turn gray. No respectable woman from Texas ever would." ~ A Woman of Fortune — Kellie Coates Gilbert
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
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
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
Never forget, son, when you represent Texas, always go first class.
— James A. Michener
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
