Texas Quotes · Page 36

That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.

— Lyle Lovett

While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it.

— John Sharp

I went from Lubbock, Texas, to Berkeley, California. That's enough said.

— Davis Webb

“Taxes and Texas—they have the same letters, but only one can go to hell.”

— Jarod Kintz

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

— William H. Wharton

I will keep working in Congress to ensure that Texas gets the investment in infrastructure we need.

— Colin Allred

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

— Alyssa Edwards

Scientists say that Texas and Antarctica were connected at one time. In fact, early Mexicans used to go through Texas to try…

— Jay Leno

My degrees are in physics and space physics, and I did well enough in university that I actually started working at the…

— Shannon Walker

Escape plan #5: Open an alpaca ranch in Texas, one that requires all blond-haired, brown-eyed, brainy girls to wear sexy cowgirl outfits.

— Richelle Mead

My grandparents would take me out fishing in their boat once a week from when I was about two or three, growing…

— RJ Mitte

The Texas thing is such a big deal because whenever I see Texas in a TV show, they always show slow-moving cattle…

— Cristela Alonzo

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

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they…

— Stephen Ambrose

After President Obama announced his support for net neutrality yesterday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz tweeted that 'Net neutrality is Obamacare for the…

— Jimmy Fallon

Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a familiar pattern. Like much…

— Molly Ivins

I grew up in the city in Houston, Texas. We lived in three or four different places around Houston for most of…

— B. J. Thomas

I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in…

— Natalie Maines

I miss Texas so bad. That’s the hard part about being out here in L.A., trying to pursue acting and music and…

— Jackson Rathbone

I drove through the stockyards of Texas on a motorcycle. It doesn't let you escape what surrounds you and what it smells…

— James Cromwell

And, Bruce and I are pretty close as well. We're both from Texas and we both understand each other. When I'm having…

— Angie Harmon

Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded…

— Bill McKibben

They said our first store in Austin would not work. Then they said it would not work outside Austin, that it would…

— John Mackey

There's a real difference between venture capitalism and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism we like. Vulture capitalism, no. And the fact of the…

— Rick Perry

I was working in a church in Florida as a youth intern, which means I really didn't do much other than staple…

— Bart Millard

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

— Rachel Griffiths

Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.

— John Bolton

When I was growing up in Texas, I didn't think there was anywhere else to live; that's how we're raised in Texas.

— Case Keenum

I'm a pageant girl from Texas, so I like makeup and hairspray. And the smoky eye? I think I was born with…

— Eva Longoria

In Texas, agriculture production is critical for our economy and food supply.

— Ronny Jackson

When I was in middle school, we had moved from Texas to Orange County. I didn't fit in, and it was pretty…

— Pedro Pascal

“Well," Jenni said with a wry smile, "at least we live in Texas, where people actually own guns and hunt.”

— Rhiannon Frater

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

— Thomas Haden Church

I'm born and raised in Houston, Texas, but Wisconsin is always going to be a home for me, and I'll always be…

— Donald Driver

I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.

— Dimebag Darrell

I was kind of sheltered. I grew up in Silsbee, Texas, a town of 3,000 people.

— Mark Henry

I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.

— Kelly Clarkson

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

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

— Simon Hoggart

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

— Taylor Sheridan