What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place.… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
My mother photographed Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas, right before he passed away. He was actually the first artist whose work I… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it… — Powers Boothe Copy Share Image
I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My album was recorded in Nashville. It used to be all about "We're from Texas, forget Nashville," well you'll never hear me… — Cody Johnson Copy Share Image
I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate, i spent five and a half years as the… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
When I went to the University of Texas, my first day of freshman year in 1994, I took a student tour, and… — Keith Maitland Copy Share Image
I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country,… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Gold teeth was just something that was popular down in Texas and around the country for a while. Growing up, it was… — Paul Wall Copy Share Image
My worst vacation ever was when we went to Cancun with the kids! It was during hurricane season. We had to make… — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
There's a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I'm obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
“Me and the Texas Woman, it was not love at first sight. In fact, my match with her was a bit of… — Sarah Bird Copy Share Image
The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Katz traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West (and] deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early… — Herb Boyd Copy Share Image
One of the ways I learned how to act, really, is by having secrets and having to function as a kid in… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
The relationships that I've built there, and the people that I've come across, I met some of my best friends in life… — Mohamed Bamba Copy Share Image
What was the first name of the Houston club? It wasn't the Astros. It was the Colt .45s. A lot of guys… — Pat Gillick Copy Share Image
Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in a camper with… — Michael Strahan Copy Share Image
We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well,… — Alan Vega Copy Share Image
Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
'Paris, Texas' is the first film that I've totally cared about, the first movie I totally wanted to do - and that… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was… — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
“She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way; but west Texas had given her something more concrete upon which… — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
I grew up in Alice, Texas, a small oil town with one theater that only showed Roy Rogers movies. So when I… — Lois Chiles Copy Share Image
Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top. — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords,… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
I was raised in Austin, Texas, around trial lawyers. My friend and I - we were 14 - would go and watch… — Julie White Copy Share Image
I don't have a beef with Texas. I just don't think Texans know anything about basketball and they don't have a sense… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
For Texas, we can lead in a proactive way on being the very best at methane capture and making sure that we're… — Colin Allred Copy Share Image
“That's it, Uncle Huey!" Imogene Duckworthy whipped off her apron and flung it onto the slick, stainless steel counter. "I quit!" If… — Kaye George Copy Share Image
I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image