Texas Quotes · Page 17

The Miami Heat playing the San Antonio Spurs is the only way I could ever root for anything from Texas.

— Anonymous

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

— Robert Toombs

It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

— Betty Buckley

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

— Berkeley Breathed

I never found a place where I wanted to live more than Alvin (Texas).

— Nolan Ryan

It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.

— Laura Moser

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being…

— Van Cliburn

I’ve traveled all over the world, but I don’t think there is any place better than Texas,

— Red Adair

Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they…

— Molly Ivins

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good…

— Abraham Lincoln

After the Texas Playboys and during that time, I had this band in college that I was in called Thrift Store Cowboys.…

— Amanda Shires

Chris Christie travelled to Ft. Worth, Texas, to give his blessing to a former rival who one week ago was approvingly discussing…

— Chris Hayes

Representative Al Edwards' pivotal role in establishing Juneteenth as a State holiday in Texas illustrates the political progress and celebration of African…

— Al N. Green

I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of…

— Ronnie Dunn

If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher…

— Forest Whitaker

Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced he is running for president. Ted Cruz was born in Canada, his father fled to the United…

— David Letterman

If you think about portraying Americans, for example, in a Russian film, it all depends on where the American is from, if…

— Demian Bichir

I have to hear this all the time in England: Well, all Americans are fat and stupid, mm-hm-hm-hm-hm. Really? Well, thanks for…

— Greg Proops

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of…

— Henry Bonilla

And, Bruce and I are pretty close as well. We're both from Texas and we both understand each other. When I'm having…

— Angie Harmon

My first encounter with yoga was in 1969 with my older brother Doug. I was thirteen years old, and he was eighteen.…

— David F. Swensen

If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans…

— John Podesta

I got an English degree in college and then went to law school because I didn't know what else to do. I…

— John Lee Hancock

“If I may be permitted to liken America to the human body, then I think it is fair to say that California…

— Jeremy Clarkson

You just can’t live in Texas/if you don’t have a lot of soul.

— Doug Sahm

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

— Jim Hightower

Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.

— Josh Beckett

Texas is dicktown. No basement in the alamo. I didnt capitalize that on purpose.

— CM Punk

Actually, I dare to say there's better Mexican food in Texas than in California.

— Melissa Barrera

My goal was to be the starting quarterback at Texas Tech and I didn't reach that goal.

— Davis Webb

I grew up in Texas City, which sounds like a fake city from a TV show.

— Edi Patterson

I've been to Florida, Texas and California in the States, but New York is the place I really want to visit.

— Chris Hoy

Experienced no-limit Texas Hold'em players understand the importance of reading flop texture.

— Daniel Negreanu

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

— Carol Burnett

I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

— Vanilla Ice

Texas is the crossroads of the world. Everything here is big.

— Bobby Lee

Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas

— Sam Houston

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

— Dorothy Malone

Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.

— Simon Hoggart

People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.

— Taylor Sheridan