Texas Quotes · Page 19

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.

— Roger Clemens

When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas.

— Rick Perry

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.

— Willie Nelson

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

— Kinky Friedman

I'm from Paris, Texas, okay! I remember looking up and just dreaming to one day make it on an airplane.

— Shangela

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

— Ronnie Dunn

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

— Sam Donaldson

I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!

— Jimmy Buffett

There is certainly a strong game development community in Texas, centered around Austin, with a significant additional contingency coming over from Dallas.

— Jennifer Pahlka

Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two where you actually…

— David Einhorn

I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like…

— Rick Perry

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I…

— Patrick Swayze

I like to make movies in Texas because that's where I learned how to do it. I know the industry there, I…

— David Lowery

I am deeply honored to be acknowledged for my work and service as a United States Representative from the Ninth Congressional District…

— Al N. Green

We ended up moving out to Texas. We live outside of Austin. We've got a couple horses, we've got three miniature donkeys,…

— Kyle Chandler

There's been a lot of guys that come out of Texas who have made it really big. So it's not a geographic…

— Gabriel Iglesias

My parents both renounced their material lives and were living as monks at an ashram in L.A. when they met each other.…

— Taraka Larson

I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places…

— Charles Kuralt

Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard…

— Cherie Priest

Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and…

— Howard Dean

My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" that it's a vegetarian movie because the way…

— Russell Simmons

Police in Texas arrested a man who was using the alias 'Barack Obama' while trying to steal money from 35 ATMs. They…

— Jimmy Fallon

A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came…

— Bayard Taylor

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater…

— Alfred Armand Montapert

There's no question about the fact that for Democrats, Texas is a tough place.

— Marc Veasey

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.

— Katherine Dunn

How come trying to explode myths about Texas always winds up reinforcing them?

— Molly Ivins

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

— Bianca Jagger

Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.

— Molly Ivins

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

— Jim Lehrer

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

— Kinky Friedman

We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

— Andrew Jackson

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

— Sam Houston

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

— Dan Rather

When someone is running for reelection in Texas, they're not looking for votes in California or New York.

— Ezra G. Levin

“The American Dream isn’t dead, but it seems to have developed a Texas accent.”

— Mark Davis

I am committed to being a strong voice and legislator for Texas' ag community in Congress!

— Ronny Jackson

I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

— Steve Earle

“Lainie, of course, would never turn gray. No respectable woman from Texas ever would.” ~ A Woman of Fortune”

— Kellie Coates Gilbert

My brother joined the Army. He served multiple tours in Iraq and now lives in Texas with his family.

— Nico Santos