Texas Quotes · Page 14

I am committed to being a strong voice and legislator for Texas' ag community in Congress!

— Ronny Jackson

I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

— Steve Earle

“Lainie, of course, would never turn gray. No respectable woman from Texas ever would.” ~ A Woman of Fortune”

— Kellie Coates Gilbert

My brother joined the Army. He served multiple tours in Iraq and now lives in Texas with his family.

— Nico Santos

Anybody that knows me knows that I'm a huge fan of Texas. I live and breathe Texas.

— Glen Powell

My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.

— Michael Caine

I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.

— Richard H. Davis

I don't want people to think I'm not proud to represent Texas.

— Chamillionaire

Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim…

— Langston Hughes

When I go to vote for anything, I always pencil in the proposition to return California and Texas to Mexico. I'm the…

— Devendra Banhart

The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a…

— Janis Joplin

The fact is every single day in the ordinary American people, America's families have to make decisions about their families and that…

— Barack Obama

Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election]

— Yogi Berra

In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then spending some…

— Taylor Sheridan

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a…

— Renee Zellweger

I was born in Galveston, Texas in 1957 in the middle of a hurricane. I guess because of the drop in the…

— Bill Engvall

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 was speaking on the radio in South Texas [in 2016], and I was speaking to Hispanics, and I said 'You know,…

— Rafael Cruz

I remember being interested in theater when I was in school, but I wasn't always engaged in making it a career. I…

— Candice Patton

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

“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

Back in East Texas, all three networks have stations in my hometown of Tyler, and for a town that small, 85,000, to…

— Louie Gohmert

I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned…

— Pat Gillick

I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a…

— Candace Kita

They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.

— Tex Ritter

I will say, I'm a great, great, great grandson of Stephen F. Austin. He founded Austin, Texas, which is kind of cool.

— Jesse Plemons

I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess

— Erin Cummings

I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction…

— Louis Sachar

When I started out, I was a basketball player at Texas Wesleyan University.

— The Undertaker

When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.

— Amaury Nolasco

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

— Laura Moser

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

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

— Doug Sahm

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

— Red Adair

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

— Molly Ivins

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

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

— James Crumley

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

— Fairuza Balk

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

— Christopher Titus