Texas Quotes · Page 10

Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team.

— Bum Phillips

We grew up in Texas. We ate fried chicken and steak all the time. I didn't eat sushi until I was 24.

— Arden Cho

When you've got a program like Texas or one like USC, every little thing is scrutinized.

— Mack Brown

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

— John Gunther

In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back.

— Steve Stockman

One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

— Bob Dylan

There's a lot of culture vultures out there taking our culture down here in Texas.

— Paul Wall

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the…

— John Steinbeck

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook…

— Bill Gates

During the cold war, West Berlin was an exclave - a tiny outpost of liberalism surrounded by people who want to crush…

— Craig Ferguson

I want to compete with the best - Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas. Because I know that not only can we compete,…

— Tate Reeves

A house panel in Texas has approved full marijuana legalization for the state. Yeah, meaning Texas could go from having dude ranches…

— Jimmy Fallon

This is a choice, ladies and gentleman, between Texas and Washington. Most of Ted Cruz's money comes from Washington, from outside the…

— David Dewhurst

Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship…

— Marianne Williamson

A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over…

— Bill W. Clayton

Texas governor Rick Perry has been in the race only three days, and he's already blowing away the competition like it is…

— Stephen Colbert

The time I spent working in the wild west show in Paris had a pretty big impact on me. A friend of…

— Ryan Bingham

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

I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the…

— Henry Thomas

The US stole Texas from Mexico by violence, then invaded Mexico on ludicrous pretexts and conquered half of it, what is now…

— Noam Chomsky

Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its…

— Gary Burton

There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took…

— Eugene McCarthy

I went to school at Texas State in San Marcos, which is a half hour from Austin.

— Edi Patterson

“I never hit below the belt, especially if that belt is the rust belt and I’m in Texas.”

— Jarod Kintz

If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.

— Chamillionaire

I was only the 22nd black woman ever elected to the Texas House, and I wouldn't be here but for people having…

— Jasmine Crockett

I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.

— Jesse Plemons

There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.

— Willie Nelson

The biggest expectations we'll always have for the University of Texas will be from within.

— Tom Herman

I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.

— Calvin Trillin

Minnesota is legit. There's so much space to run, like back home in Texas.

— Jimmy Butler

The name of the game is no-limit Texas Hold'em, the game that takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master.

— Mike Sexton

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is seen as a figurehead for Tea Party conservatives.

— Harry Enten

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

— John Steinbeck

I am about the people of the United States of America and the people of Houston, Texas.

— Sheila Jackson Lee

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

— Robert Wilson

I'm not saying that Paul Ryan would weep if Bernie Sanders won Texas but it's definitely possible.

— Krystal Ball

“I went to school in Hooks, Texas, where most people can't even read the name stitched over their own pocket.”

— Joe Bob Briggs