Texas Quotes
613 Texas quotes by 422 unique authors
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I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas.…
— George Strait
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight…
— Patrick Swayze
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Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of…
— Ginny Brown-Waite
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When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of…
— Sheldon Whitehouse
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Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.
— Ricky Williams
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If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to…
— Ricky Williams
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They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What…
— Cormac McCarthy
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The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for…
— Garrison Keillor
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There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame…
— George W. Bush
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I talked to my little brother, Jeb -- I haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor of -- I shouldn't call him…
— George W. Bush
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Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
— Larry McMurtry
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Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in…
— Thomas Wolfe
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Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.
— George S. Patton
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The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus,…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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My one-time roommate Claire had inherited the house from her uncle, and when she went off to bigger and better things, she’d left it in…
— Karen Chance
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By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.
— Jacqueline Kelly
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There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too…
— Katherine Dunn
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I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in…
— Edna Ferber
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We’re on the moon,” Sadie murmured. “El Paso, Texas,” Bast corrected.
— Rick Riordan
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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 already in that…
— Truman Capote
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She dug in her backpack, found her cell phone, and checked for coverage. It was kind of lame in Morganville, truthfully, out in the middle…
— Rachel Caine
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That's what happens when it snows in Texas lady. It. Freaking. Melts.
— Rick Riordan
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American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and…
— Charles Bukowski
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He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly…
— Christopher Hitchens
Who Wrote These Texas Quotes
422 authors contributed a total of 613 Texas Quotes, led by these top contributors: