Texas Quotes · Page 18

I live in Texas, man. It's hard to be a vegetarian down here.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.

— Darrell Royal

To be beautiful in Texas, you had to be blonde and blue-eyed and have a name like Ann.

— Sarah Shahi

Truth is, I've spent much of my life trying, unsuccessfully, to explode the myths about Texas.

— Molly Ivins

“Texas was ungodly hot. Like the circles of hell kind of hot.”

— J. Lynn

Look, No Limit Texas Hold 'em is a game of reads, deduction and logic, and Allen Cunningham excels in each.

— Phil Hellmuth

People in Midland are real nice folks: I can't prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it's just a…

— Molly Ivins

I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.

— Adam McKay

You know, one day you're being briefed on world affairs and asked to make decisions, and the next, you're in Crawford, Texas…

— George W. Bush

It's basically a united [Republican ] party behind [Donald Trump] and Cruz's numbers in Texas were plummeting and he was facing a…

— Chris Hayes

Texas really is the greatest state in the greatest nation. Texans - and women all over the country - deserve leaders that…

— Wendy Davis

If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's…

— J. R. Martinez

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning…

— Bobby Knight

“Daddy, are we democraps or repelicans? Lainie daintily placed her fork down and gave her brother a stern look. “We’re Texans silly.”

— Kellie Coates Gilbert

“[Yeah, thanks a lot, Sadie. You get to tell the part about the Land of the Dead. I get to describe Interstate…

— Rick Riordan

Chris Christie travelled to Ft. Worth, Texas, to give his blessing to a former rival who one week ago was approvingly discussing…

— Chris Hayes

Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and…

— Howard Dean

Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard…

— Cherie Priest

I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places…

— Charles Kuralt

A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came…

— Bayard Taylor

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater…

— Alfred Armand Montapert

My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" that it's a vegetarian movie because the way…

— Russell Simmons

Police in Texas arrested a man who was using the alias 'Barack Obama' while trying to steal money from 35 ATMs. They…

— Jimmy Fallon

I have to hear this all the time in England: Well, all Americans are fat and stupid, mm-hm-hm-hm-hm. Really? Well, thanks for…

— Greg Proops

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

— Dorothy Malone

Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.

— Simon Hoggart

My Longhorns are registered and I am a member of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association.

— Janine Turner

I was recently designated Tweeter Laureate of Texas, which apparently is a thing.

— Don Willett

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

— George Carlin

In 1972, former Texas Governor John Connally led 'Democrats for Nixon.'

— Mike Gallagher

People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.

— Taylor Sheridan

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

— John Steinbeck

My collection has a whole new cut; they are based on the style of jeans my mum wore in Texas in the…

— Georgia May Jagger

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

— Calamity Jane

Corporations and billionaires should pay their fair share while hard-working Texas families need a tax cut.

— Colin Allred

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

— Floyd Abrams

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

— Edward Smith

You might be a redneck if an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger changed your life.

— Jeff Foxworthy

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.

— Katherine Dunn

How come trying to explode myths about Texas always winds up reinforcing them?

— Molly Ivins