Texas Quotes · Page 9

“OK isn’t just all right—it’s also the abbreviation for the state above Texas.”

— Jarod Kintz

Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.

— Lloyd Bentsen

There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.

— Ray Thompson

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

— Jessica Savitch

Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other.

— Craig McDonald

In me, the Texas agriculture community will always have a trusted friend and vocal ally.

— Ronny Jackson

I love Texas, I can't wait in a couple of days to be home to the great state.

— Ted Cruz

“I feel like I've been ironing all day in high heels and no brassiere. ~Tizzy Donovan, Laid Out and Candle Lit”

— Ann Everett

From a scientific point of view, it's hard for me to understand why someone in the Texas Panhandle should not have access…

— Bill Foster

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the…

— Jon Meacham

You know Bakersfield was full of workers from the south, from Texas and Arkansas, and they brought their gospel and blues with…

— Gregory Porter

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was…

— Jesse Plemons

“Now we were on the great Texas plain and, as Dean said, "You drive and drive and you're still in Texas tomorrow…

— Jack Kerouac

In the next four years, President Bush will continue to keep America safe, our enemies on the run, and our economic progress…

— Henry Bonilla

It was fortunate for all of us to have Joaquin Jackson, who is a very renowned Texas Ranger, on board. He spent…

— Jeff Bridges

I watched 'Alien,' and I watched 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' the Swedish version. I watched the original 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre,'…

— Alexandra Daddario

I was born in Galveston, Texas in 1957 in the middle of a hurricane. I guess because of the drop in the…

— Bill Engvall

The more successful sons and daughters know when to lean on their parents - and when to go their own way. George…

— Michael Beschloss

I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with…

— Frances Moore Lappé

When the F-16 first was rolled out, there were many problems in the development. There were cost issues, and it ended up…

— Marc Veasey

Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But…

— Philipp Meyer

Everything edible is fried in Texas! Or it is buried in the ground to cook before it is eaten. ... Texas food…

— Mercedes McCambridge

I'm not a person who naturally loves to wake up in the morning and go 'Yeah, I'm going to work out for…

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts…

— J. Frank Dobie

Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.

— Carl Gardner

George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent…

— Peter Jennings

When you combine a Texas woman in a competition setting with her child, she gets very serious.

— Alyssa Edwards

North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

— Dave Liebman

You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of…

— Rachel Griffiths

Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice.

— Billy Bush

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

— Jim Evans

On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel.

— Bryan Hayes

I wrestled a lot in Texas at Anarchy Championship Wrestling.

— Daffney

Everything I ever will be is because of Texas A&M University.

— John Sharp

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

— John Steinbeck

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

— JoBeth Williams

We’re on the moon,” Sadie murmured. “El Paso, Texas,” Bast corrected.

— Rick Riordan

I came out to California from Texas, to the Haight, and the Fillmore and all that stuff, and totally got the bug.

— Christopher Cross

I was a three-star recruit, went to Texas A&M, and no one really talked about me there.

— Khris Middleton

I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington.

— Kay Bailey Hutchison