Texas Quotes · Page 8

I'm from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

— Jay R. Ferguson

Even in Texas, there's a lot of people who've never been to Lubbock.

— Mike Leach

I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.

— Jack Antonoff

Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.

— Lloyd Bentsen

“OK isn’t just all right—it’s also the abbreviation for the state above Texas.”

— Jarod Kintz

There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.

— Ray Thompson

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

— Jessica Savitch

Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other.

— Craig McDonald

The Port of Houston, known as the International Port of Texas, holds a pivotal role as the nation's largest port for waterborne…

— Al N. Green

As young black boys in Alief, Texas, my friends and I often spent afternoons imagining ourselves scoring the game-winning touchdown at the…

— Martellus Bennett

I got everything I wanted out of Texas. Obviously, you'd love to win more. You'd love to win a national championship and…

— Mohamed Bamba

She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas.…

— Lee Child

[I was raised in] West Texas where people can dream big dreams and achieve them. But where people also have a great…

— George W. Bush

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing,…

— Ornette Coleman

“Imogene Duckworthy did not like pigs. She was fairly fond of cattle, having grown up surrounded by them. She hadn't been around…

— Kaye George

The first time I watched 'Paris, Texas' was the first time I was emotional over a film. It's just aching with vulnerability.

— Jenna Ortega

Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But…

— Philipp Meyer

Everything edible is fried in Texas! Or it is buried in the ground to cook before it is eaten. ... Texas food…

— Mercedes McCambridge

When the F-16 first was rolled out, there were many problems in the development. There were cost issues, and it ended up…

— Marc Veasey

I spent a summer in Texas when I was eight, in Fredericksburg, which is, like, real Texas. It's, like, cowboys and stuff.…

— Alexander Skarsgard

I'm not a person who naturally loves to wake up in the morning and go 'Yeah, I'm going to work out for…

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts…

— J. Frank Dobie

“At 6:15 she was standing on her front porch watering gardenias and watching another line of thunderstorms split and go around her.…

— Andrew Geyer

You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're…

— Truman Capote

I'm a kid from a small town in West Texas, and I've gotten to travel the world. I got to live all…

— John Layfield

When things were really rolling at Texas Tech, I was a part of something bigger than myself, bigger than football.

— Mike Leach

By the way of Texas. Big face Rolexes. While she's undessing, man I'm stressing.

— 2 Chainz

Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march!

— Maxcy Gregg

Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

— Calvin Jillson

English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.

— Miriam A. Ferguson

It's not hard to find a date if you are Jewish in New York and Miami, but its hard in Texas.

— Patti Stanger

I was a three-star recruit, went to Texas A&M, and no one really talked about me there.

— Khris Middleton

We’re on the moon,” Sadie murmured. “El Paso, Texas,” Bast corrected.

— Rick Riordan

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

— JoBeth Williams

I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington.

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

— Emmanuelle Chriqui

“New Mexico, New Jersey, New Hampshire; there isn't a New Texas because we got it right the first time." -Donna Irwin”

— Donna Irwin

The thing about Texas is that it's a little larger than life.

— Lauren Shuler Donner

Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.

— Rick Perry

I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.

— George W. Bush