Texas famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
-- A. J. Liebling -
At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
-- Adam Schiff -
I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.
-- Agyness Deyn -
I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to be as good as they can be.
-- Alan Bean -
We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!
-- Alan Vega -
I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.
-- Alexander Skarsgard -
In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.
-- Alistair Cooke -
DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape.
-- Alvin Ailey -
When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.
-- Amaury Nolasco -
I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
-- Ann Richards -
There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.
-- Ann Richards -
If you had planned to come to Crawford in the middle of the hot summer in August, no one would have come with you, if you had planned it. But spontaneously, we have now been here 11 days in the most intense heat that you can imagine of west Texas. Some of the most intense heat thunderstorms.
-- Ann Wright -
I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public.
-- Anne Grant -
This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas, are worthy of our attention, but it also conveys that he does not seek to beautify their lives by removing the crude edges.
-- Anne Wilkes Tucker -
At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard if he can help it. Many mounted regiments were therefore organized, and afterwards dismounted.
-- Arthur Fremantle -
The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me.
-- Audie Murphy -
In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.
-- Barack Obama -
The fact is every single day in the ordinary American people, America's families have to make decisions about their families and that should be made by them, not by the Texas or United States.
-- Barack Obama -
I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.
-- Barbara Jordan -
Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
-- Bear Bryant -
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 -
President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.
-- Bianca Jagger -
To me, Texas is Austin, a bunch of cool people trying to make a difference.
-- Bill Hicks -
Down in Texas, Rick Perry announced he will not run for reelection. He said 'I executed one last woman, that fertilizer plant exploded, I returned abortions to back alleys where it belongs, my work here is done.' I think that's what he said, he was chewing a crayon.
-- Bill Maher -
They are having a panel look into the intelligence failures in Iraq. It is a seven-person panel and it will include Senator John McCain, but the findings from this panel will not be issued until after the election. President Bush says the commission can go off and report back in a year, you know, the same way it works in the Texas National Guard.
-- Bill Maher -
Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth. Arctic sea ice is near all-time record lows. Record floods from Pakistan to Queensland to the Mississippi basin; record drought from the steppes of Russia to the plains of Texas...This is what climate change looks like in its early stages.
-- Bill McKibben -
I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
-- Bill Moyers -
In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.
-- Bill Moyers -
A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.
-- Bill W. Clayton -
Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice.
-- Billy Bush -
Texas Red is about the biggest blues hellraiser you'll ever meet...
-- Bob Corritore -
During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.
-- Bobby Knight -
Texas is the crossroads of the world. Everything here is big.
-- Bobby Lee -
I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.
-- Bum Phillips -
Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team.
-- Bum Phillips -
I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
-- Buzz Bissinger -
While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
-- Calamity Jane -
We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
-- Calamity Jane -
Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.
-- Caleb Landry Jones -
Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.
-- Calvin Jillson -
Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.
-- Calvin Trillin -
I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
-- Candace Kita -
I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
-- Candace Kita -
Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
-- Carol Burnett -
Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.
-- Carolyn Wheat -
I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.
-- Carroll Shelby -
I grew up training and showing Arabs all over the US. Three of my four were bred on my farm in Texas. Thanks everyone! Hope you'll watch tomorrow. It's going to be another great look back.
-- Catherine Crier -
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 Louisiana.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard a Texas vessel, you'll find less inconvenience along the way." "It's because of their guns!" declared Mr. Henderson, once more escaping his reverie, bobbing out of it as if to gasp for air. "Concise, my love." Mrs. Henderson gave him a smile. "And correct. Texans are heavily armed and often impatient. They don't need to be transporting arms and gunpowder to create a great nuisance for anyone who stops them, so they tend to be stopped...less often.
-- Cherie Priest -
I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.
-- Chris Cornell -
During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.
-- Chris Ware -
Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas
-- Christina Milian -
I came out to California from Texas, to the Haight, and the Fillmore and all that stuff, and totally got the bug.
-- Christopher Cross -
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, then it's good enough for me.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way. (Closing statement of the debate with William Dembski at Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano, Texas, November 18, 2010)
-- Christopher Hitchens -
While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.
-- Chuck Norris -
Texas is dicktown. No basement in the alamo. I didnt capitalize that on purpose.
-- CM Punk -
I'd just gotten into Los Angeles from Texas, where I live, and the phone rang and it was the guy calling about the Willie Nelson video. I was totally excited about it.
-- Corin Nemec -
The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.
-- Corrine Brown -
It is a great day for the great state of Texas. The last person being tested for Ebola has come back clean. So Texas is now Ebola free. This was a big week for them. They're now free of Ebola - and Democrats.
-- Craig Ferguson -
Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other.
-- Craig McDonald -
Texans for Public Justice, an anti-corruption group based in Texas applauded the indictment. No jury can undo the outcome of Texas 2002 elections, ... but the justice system must punish those who criminally conspire to undermine democracy no matter how powerful they may be. If we are to be a democracy, then powerful politicians cannot flout such laws with impunity.
-- Craig McDonald -
I believe that requiring those already in Texas to obtain driver’s licenses would ensure they pass a driver’s test and meet the requirements to obtain auto insurance.
-- Dan Patrick -
Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.
-- Dan Rather -
Natural isn't something I get called a lot in Texas.
-- Dan Savage -
Yes, (Bush is a) racist. We all knew that but the world is only finding it out now. As Texas's governor, Bush led a penitentiary system that executed more people than all the other U.S. states together. And most of the people who died from (the) death penalty were Afro-Americans or Hispanics. (Bush) promoted a Conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality.
-- Danny Glover -
I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.
-- Darrell Royal -
The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets.
-- Darrell Royal -
For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
-- Darrell Royal -
When we don't fund Child Protective Services, there are consequences for all of us. Violence manifests itself. Mental health services in Texas are extremely poor. The answer is not to wait until they do something to get them help.
-- David Atwood -
I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.
-- David Dewhurst -
If you like Texas and you like our economy, I helped create all that and all those jobs and you will love it when David Dewhurst goes to Washington.
-- David Dewhurst -
I live part-time in a cabin in Colorado up in the mountains and part-time on a ranch in central Texas - but do I really know how to go brand a cow, or do I really know how to go rappelling down a cliff? No. I do the recreational, half-assed version of all these manly activities and then try to keep that kind of Zen masculinity, like, "I'm a man of nature."
-- David Gordon Green -
One thing is to escape from prison, but what the Texas 7 did that night crossed the line they should have never crossed.
-- David Travis -
I also told them of the manner in which I had been knocked down and dragged out, and that I didn't consider it a fair fight any how they could fix it. I put the ingredients in the cup pretty strong I tell you, and I concluded my speech by telling them that I was done with politics for the present, and they might all go to hell, and I would go to Texas.
-- Davy Crockett -
You can all go to Hell, I’m going to Texas!
-- Davy Crockett -
I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.
-- Dean Ornish -
I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.
-- Debby Ryan -
I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.
-- Dennis Quaid -
I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.
-- Dimebag Darrell -
Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.
-- Don Baylor -
George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman
-- Donella Meadows -
The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.
-- Dorothy Malone -
You just can’t live in Texas/if you don’t have a lot of soul.
-- Doug Sahm -
I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state
-- Drew Brees -
I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.
-- Duane Chapman -
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.
-- Ed Gillespie -
I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
-- Ed Gillespie -
Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.
-- Edna Ferber -
here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.
-- Edna Ferber -
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 the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.
-- Edna Ferber -
If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.
-- Edna Ferber -
But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.
-- Eli Wallach -
So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.
-- Elizabeth Moon -
Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down. . . .The writing is superb.
-- Elmer Kelton
