Texan Quotes · Page 2

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

— Gary Busey

At Odessa we became Texans, and proud of it.

— George H. W. Bush

My mother is French, my father is Texan.

— Mireille Enos

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

— Berkeley Breathed

There's nothing like being a Texan, and I'm proud to be one.

— Dusty Rhodes

I feel blessed to have been raised a Texan.

— George W. Bush

I think Texans have more fun than the rest of the world

— Tommy Tune

I'm a sixth-generation Texan, even though I was born in California.

— Sam Elliott

Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.

— John Steinbeck

I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything is possible. Texans think big

— Phil Gramm

I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't…

— Bum Phillips

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

— Edward Hoagland

I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and…

— Wendy Davis

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 supported Arizona's immigration law by joining in that lawsuit to defend it. Every day I have Texans on that border that…

— Rick Perry

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

— Henry A. Kissinger

“She was a former Texan - proud, loud and stubborn. But you can't really be a former Texan. You can only move…

— Jeffrey Michelson

In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention…

— Michael McCaul

People actually occupy around 3 per cent of the earth's land surface. If 1,200 square feet was given to every person in…

— Michael Coren

It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought…

— Marc Veasey

Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen,…

— Tommy Lee Jones

At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard…

— Arthur Fremantle

“We'd better get. But y'all have a nice night,' I say. Apparently, fear turns me Texan. A startling personality insight that I'll…

— Anonymous

Patrick Swayze had done The Outsiders already - he was certainly the star of our class - and for a big, sexy,…

— Beth Grant

It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had…

— Rick Perry

All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We…

— Billy Bob Thornton

Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked…

— Anonymous

I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which…

— John Graves

I urge all Texans to answer the call to serve those in need. By volunteering their time, energy or resources to helping…

— George W. Bush

Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them.…

— Lisa Kleypas

One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes…

— Adam Hochschild

I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people…

— Jesse Metcalfe

She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.

— Simone Elkeles

Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!

— Robert E. Lee

I'm an American by birth, but I'm a Texan by the Grace of God.

— Larry Gatlin

What has six balls and screws Texans? The Texas Lottery.

— Kinky Friedman

“He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan…

— Patricia Cori

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

— Joseph Heller

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

— Edward Smith

They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.

— Tex Ritter