Texas Quotes · Page 15

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

— Anonymous

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

— Robert Toombs

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

— Berkeley Breathed

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

— Nolan Ryan

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

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

— Carol Burnett

I helped write the expunction code in the State of Texas to give people the opportunity to have their names cleared when…

— Marc Veasey

What I have found is the same people who are interested in Texas and Oklahoma going to the SEC on Outkick are…

— Clay Travis

Opera became popular in Texas the same way it did in a lot of previously isolated regions of the nation. It started…

— Beverly Sills

Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or…

— Anonymous

I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our…

— John Cornyn

Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They…

— Brent Musburger

Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas— he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't…

— Nalini Singh

I lived most of my life in Texas, but I've settled down in Pittsburgh. My husband is from here. We met at…

— Lacey Sturm

Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole…

— Dan Rather

The law exists for lots of reasons. In the case of migration, the law exists to maintain the integrity of America. We…

— Rush Limbaugh

“But that’s the thing about East Texas. Red dirt never quite washes out, and pine pollen is tenacious as original sin. You…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

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

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

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

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

— Vanilla Ice

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

When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.

— Jim Hightower

Texas is dicktown. No basement in the alamo. I didnt capitalize that on purpose.

— CM Punk

Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.

— Josh Beckett

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

— Davis Webb

Actually, I dare to say there's better Mexican food in Texas than in California.

— Melissa Barrera

I grew up in Texas City, which sounds like a fake city from a TV show.

— Edi Patterson

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

— Floyd Abrams

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

— Jeff Foxworthy

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

— Edward Smith

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

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

— Colin Allred

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

— Calamity Jane

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

— Simon Hoggart