We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy. The politicians in charge… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
Texas's official hostility toward gender nonconforming children has had the predictable effect of pushing families out of the state in search of… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
My worst vacation ever was when we went to Cancun with the kids! It was during hurricane season. We had to make… — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
There's a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I'm obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change.… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“Me and the Texas Woman, it was not love at first sight. In fact, my match with her was a bit of… — Sarah Bird Copy Share Image
Advancements in technology have become so commonplace that sometimes we forget to stop and think about how incredible it is that a… — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I met Cindy [Sheehan] near Crawford, Texas. I went out to personally thank her for waiting patiently by the road in front… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
“I hated seeing these spasmodic upside-down chicken heads stretching to puncture my flesh. I imagined once that they reached my groin and… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
To look back and reflect on the career and sort of look at the seasons of it before I got to the… — Jeff Jarrett Copy Share Image
I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people… — Jesse Metcalfe Copy Share Image
The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
My family is Chilean, and I was born there. By the time I was four, we were living in San Antonio, Texas,… — Pedro Pascal Copy Share Image
Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We will do whatever it takes to keep Tom Herman at the University of Houston. We're not going to lose Tom Herman… — Tilman J. Fertitta Copy Share Image
“You don't need meat at every meal," Riley offered, forking another bite of salad into his mouth and inwardly agreeing with Jack… — RJ Scott Copy Share Image
I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“I’m at peak physical condition now. People sometimes assume I was in the army. I think I’m too insubordinate for that line… — Caspar Vega Copy Share Image
When I initially met with Robert I was just so excited to meet the guy. I was able to go to Troublemaker… — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
I've never struggled with that at all. In the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
When you take over a company like GE, you think you're going to visit 100 businesses. You're going to go see the… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
“Families start out, most of the time, with unconditional acceptance of one another. That acceptance starts in childhood and continues into adulthood.… — Bart Hopkins Copy Share Image
In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
[T]he 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 Copy Share Image
“One hand went around her shoulders and the other one tipped her chin up. For several seconds he lost himself in her… — Carolyn Brown Copy Share Image
I think this spring as the mosquito populations start to increase, we should be especially cautious about locations where we've had locally-transmitted… — Laura Harrington Copy Share Image
The church in the book (and movie) plays a pivotal scene. We looked everywhere .. I mean everywhere! We had to have… — Luka Magnotta Copy Share Image
When was about 16 or 17, I was living in Beaumont, Texas and Carlos Montoya came to Lamar College. I went to… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
Well, President-elect Barack Obama and his family are gonna spend the holidays in his home state of Hawaii. And you know who… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo,… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
There's something about Detroit, man: there's a serious vibe there. It could be that blue-collar, working-class-mentality person who lives out there. There's… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
I grew up in Texas City, Texas. I didn't know anybody who was a director or whose parents or grandparents were directors.… — John Lee Hancock Copy Share Image
In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I didn't know much about Texas when I moved there for graduate school. In my first or second semester, I took a… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty… — Edie Brickell Copy Share Image
My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went to a school called Chapman University, which is a wonderful film school. It was a great program, but it was… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image