Texas Quotes · Page 17

My goal was to be the starting quarterback at Texas Tech and I didn't reach that goal.

— Davis Webb

I've been to Florida, Texas and California in the States, but New York is the place I really want to visit.

— Chris Hoy

Experienced no-limit Texas Hold'em players understand the importance of reading flop texture.

— Daniel Negreanu

Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas

— Sam Houston

Texas is the crossroads of the world. Everything here is big.

— Bobby Lee

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

— Carol Burnett

I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

— Vanilla Ice

The Miami Heat playing the San Antonio Spurs is the only way I could ever root for anything from Texas.

— Anonymous

Fandango is not really a Western. It's really just set in Texas. It's a road picture. And then I did one that…

— Judd Nelson

Coach Pederson is the one who drafted me. He was the only coach who flew down to Texas and worked me out.…

— Nick Foles

I used to tell people all the time that I left the Texas state House - which definitely had its own issues…

— Jasmine Crockett

Even without mandatory sentences, judges are still capable of levying tough penalties for serious offenses - and just as in states like…

— Ken Cuccinelli

If you go to any elementary school classroom in Texas, some kids in there are going to be named either Austin, Dallas…

— Mike Leach

The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often…

— Clifford Ross

I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with…

— Haylie Duff

Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take…

— Edward Abbey

I had never been to Texas. I'd been through Texas, but I'm so glad to be back in a place that's not…

— Kelli Giddish

“Because, in the end, it takes a heck of a lot more than queso, Dr Pepper, and hair spray to make a…

— Sarah Bird

They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in…

— Cormac McCarthy

I have no memories of my childhood in Texas. When I was about four, we moved to San Francisco. I was in…

— Johnny Mathis

It's something that Cory Morrow said to me a long time ago - "Don't ever forget why Nashville is Nashville. The Opry…

— Cody Johnson

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

There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad…

— Phil Collins

You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and…

— Rick Perry

Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never Go back to Texas again

— James Crumley

I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running.

— Bear Bryant

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

— Molly Ivins

Texas is a hell hole, man. Dirt, cactus, lizards, dirt, cactus, the Bush family.

— Christopher Titus

I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

— Fairuza Balk

It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

— Betty Buckley

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

— Berkeley Breathed

I never found a place where I wanted to live more than Alvin (Texas).

— Nolan Ryan

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

— Robert Toombs

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being…

— Van Cliburn

It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.

— Laura Moser

I’ve traveled all over the world, but I don’t think there is any place better than Texas,

— Red Adair

You just can’t live in Texas/if you don’t have a lot of soul.

— Doug Sahm

Tobe Hooper - he did my favorite horror movie, 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre.' It's still one of my favorite horror films.

— Fred Willard

I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.

— Jim Parsons

I was born in Nashville, but my whole family is from East Texas, so I consider myself a dual citizen.

— Aubrie Sellers