Best Houston Quotations
130 Houston quotes by 115 unique authors
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In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it.
— Shelley Duvall
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San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort…
— Steve Earle
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When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.
— George Foreman
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Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium…
— Molly Ivins
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I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood.…
— Beyonce Knowles
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I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.
— Sheila Jackson Lee
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I am about the people of the United States of America and the people of Houston, Texas.
— Sheila Jackson Lee
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New York is fast paced, with enthusiastic fans and lots of media attention. Houston's slower paced, and there's more of a southern culture to the…
— Jeremy Lin
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I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.
— Dennis Quaid
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I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had…
— Dennis Quaid
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Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of…
— Dan Rather
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Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.
— Nolan Ryan
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I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
— Robert Smith
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When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
— Ron White
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Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.
— Stephen King
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I didn’t know baboons could drive recreational vehicles, but Khufu did okay. When I woke up around dawn, he was navigating through the early morning…
— Rick Riordan
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Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry…
— Tina Fey
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The baby woke up before you did. I took him to the other room to let you get a little more sleep. We've been watching…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Former police chief of Houston once said of me: “Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign…
— Frank Abagnale
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I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...What for? Houston isn't on our schedule.
— Bum Phillips
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I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought…
— Warren Moon
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I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I…
— Natalie MacMaster
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Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.
— Noah Baumbach
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I love Dallas, Austin and Houston. Why? Because some of the best comedians, like Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison, started their careers in Texas, and…
— Bobby Lee
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I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.
— Megan Hilty
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