Texas Quotes · Page 9

I am about the people of the United States of America and the people of Houston, Texas.

— Sheila Jackson Lee

The name of the game is no-limit Texas Hold'em, the game that takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master.

— Mike Sexton

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

The biggest expectations we'll always have for the University of Texas will be from within.

— Tom Herman

I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.

— Calvin Trillin

Minnesota is legit. There's so much space to run, like back home in Texas.

— Jimmy Butler

There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.

— Willie Nelson

My father 'Pappy' who is black, is from Galveston and Fort Worth, Texas. My mother, who is white, is from San Diego.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it…

— Will Rogers

Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of…

— Anonymous

American barbecue is all slow and low, you know, or low and slow, as they say down in the South, in Texas.…

— Roy Choi

A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and…

— Clint Smith

Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas…

— John Cornyn

I still think 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' was what they call one of those watershed movies. That and 'The Exorcist' and 'Psycho'…

— Fred Willard

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign…

— John Steinbeck

We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has…

— Wendy Davis

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results…

— Wendy Davis

When I went to the University of Texas, my first day of freshman year in 1994, I took a student tour, and…

— Keith Maitland

Sitting on the House Armed Services Committee is a great responsibility and an opportunity to represent not only the thousands of veterans…

— Marc Veasey

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7…

— Maggie Gallagher

Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I…

— Robert Wilson

I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows…

— J. Michael Straczynski

Texans for Public Justice, an anti-corruption group based in Texas applauded the indictment. No jury can undo the outcome of Texas 2002…

— Craig McDonald

I don't have anything against either of the Dead movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, none of those movies. If it scares somebody,…

— Stephen King

I once found myself in Paris, Texas, possibly the most curious juxtaposition of place names in America.

— Neil Macdonald

I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.

— Stark Sands

As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don't know how to ride a bike.

— Tamron Hall

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it?s magical.

— Pamela Ribon

I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

— Sam Houston

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

— Janine Turner

We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

— Rick Perry

“There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough.”

— Katherine Dunn

Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.

— John Benjamin Hickey

I've got one house and it's in Texas. Everything else is rentals for more.

— George Hill

We remain committed to the conference and fully anticipate that the Big 12 will honor its commitment to Texas A&M.

— R. Bowen Loftin

The University of Texas is a place, a special place, that deservedly holds a seat among college football elite.

— Tom Herman

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was…

— Jesse Plemons

To me, Texas is Austin, a bunch of cool people trying to make a difference.

— Bill Hicks

It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite.

— Johnny Manziel

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

— Jarod Kintz