Texas Quotes · Page 10

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

— Lou Holtz

There's no question that I love playing in Texas. I love the fans. I love everything about Texas.

— Mark Teixeira

Never spit in front of women and children, and never insult the great state of Texas.

— Henry Garza

I'm a pretty private person. I live in Texas, and I like my small network.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

“Thats what happens to Snow in Texas, lady. It freaking MELTS!!" Leo Valdez- The Lost Hero”

— Rick Riordan

“In Texas, two things are cherished above all else- football and gossip.”

— Cora Carmack

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

— Eva Longoria

Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.

— Dan Jenkins

When I started playing music it was around Austin and the Hill Country area in Texas and there were always campfires and…

— Ryan Bingham

There is a long tradition of pungent living in the South. It was wonderful to have that imprinted on me so early…

— Sissy Spacek

The Port of Houston, known as the International Port of Texas, holds a pivotal role as the nation's largest port for waterborne…

— Al N. Green

The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession…

— Gail Collins

For a few precious moments... I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky... where all things are again possible... and…

— Larry L. King

Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I…

— Bill Paxton

I just hope that I don't get typecast a a cowboy. If I wanted to rid the range all the time, I…

— Joe Don Baker

I want to compete with the best - Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas. Because I know that not only can we compete,…

— Tate Reeves

I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas,…

— Sandra Cisneros

Surrounded by a sweltering state known for its staunch conservatism, Austin is an oasis. It's home to the University of Texas, which…

— Andrew Zimmern

In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on…

— Noam Chomsky

I get goose-bumps when you talk about Diane Wilson. Who knows where she found that courage? When she was a child, she…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a familiar pattern. Like much…

— Molly Ivins

Stan Hansen was a tough-as-nails freshman middle linebacker when I was a senior at West Texas State. He was a damn good…

— Terry Funk

Scott has to be one of the most talented artists I've ever seen. He really captures his subjects in a unique way.…

— Bob Lilly

This is called "spiritual lifting." It's not heavy lifting. The governor of Texas should not be confused with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's a…

— Kinky Friedman

One day, it just dawned on me that I'm from Texas, and that's what I am.

— Sissy Spacek

I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.

— Shane Carruth

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

— F. Murray Abraham

When you lose at Texas, you're going to be bashed. I accept it.

— Mack Brown

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

— Tom Hicks

There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.

— Willie Nelson

Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.

— Ian Frazier

“I went to school in Hooks, Texas, where most people can't even read the name stitched over their own pocket.”

— Joe Bob Briggs

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is seen as a figurehead for Tea Party conservatives.

— Harry Enten

Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.

— John Steinbeck

I am about the people of the United States of America and the people of Houston, Texas.

— Sheila Jackson Lee

I'm not saying that Paul Ryan would weep if Bernie Sanders won Texas but it's definitely possible.

— Krystal Ball

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

— Robert Wilson

When I was growing up in Texas, I didn't think there was anywhere else to live; that's how we're raised in Texas.

— Case Keenum

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

The biggest expectations we'll always have for the University of Texas will be from within.

— Tom Herman