Texas Quotes · Page 18

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

— John Steinbeck

My Longhorns are registered and I am a member of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association.

— Janine Turner

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

— George Carlin

I was recently designated Tweeter Laureate of Texas, which apparently is a thing.

— Don Willett

In 1972, former Texas Governor John Connally led 'Democrats for Nixon.'

— Mike Gallagher

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

— Floyd Abrams

Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best."

— Edward Smith

You might be a redneck if an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger changed your life.

— Jeff Foxworthy

My grandparents would take me out fishing in their boat once a week from when I was about two or three, growing…

— RJ Mitte

If you're true to yourself, it doesn't matter where you record your music or where you say you're from. I am an…

— Cody Johnson

When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band.…

— Willie Nelson

And if you think this young boy, from Dallas, Texas, is adding to the canon of theater arts, of performing arts, of…

— Jonathan Majors

The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half…

— John Sherman Cooper

The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became…

— Carlos Alvarez

Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what…

— H. Beam Piper

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We…

— Bear Bryant

When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dreams of…

— Raini Rodriguez

“I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique…

— John Steinbeck

“Because, in the end, it takes a heck of a lot more than queso, Dr Pepper, and hair spray to make a…

— Sarah Bird

It's something that Cory Morrow said to me a long time ago - "Don't ever forget why Nashville is Nashville. The Opry…

— Cody Johnson

They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in…

— Cormac McCarthy

I have no memories of my childhood in Texas. When I was about four, we moved to San Francisco. I was in…

— Johnny Mathis

There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad…

— Phil Collins

You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and…

— Rick Perry

My collection has a whole new cut; they are based on the style of jeans my mum wore in Texas in the…

— Georgia May Jagger

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

— Calamity Jane

Corporations and billionaires should pay their fair share while hard-working Texas families need a tax cut.

— Colin Allred

I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.

— Jim Parsons

I was born in Nashville, but my whole family is from East Texas, so I consider myself a dual citizen.

— Aubrie Sellers

I live in Texas, man. It's hard to be a vegetarian down here.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Tobe Hooper - he did my favorite horror movie, 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre.' It's still one of my favorite horror films.

— Fred Willard

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.

— Darrell Royal

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

— Sarah Shahi

“Texas was ungodly hot. Like the circles of hell kind of hot.”

— J. Lynn

Truth is, I've spent much of my life trying, unsuccessfully, to explode the myths about Texas.

— Molly Ivins

Look, No Limit Texas Hold 'em is a game of reads, deduction and logic, and Allen Cunningham excels in each.

— Phil Hellmuth

People in Midland are real nice folks: I can't prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it's just a…

— Molly Ivins

I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.

— Adam McKay

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

— Kinky Friedman

The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas.

— George W. Bush