Texas Quotes

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state.

It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already.

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'

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.

I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.

I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.

I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas.

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.

They're really competitive at drama in Texas.

I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.

Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.

You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

I'm born and raised in Houston, Texas, but Wisconsin is always going to be a home for me, and I'll always be back.

I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up.

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

I love working in Texas anywhere.

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

When George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney, it was a reassuring sign that the Texas governor would have an experienced, prudent voice at his side.

You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

I lived in Texas for 10 years.

Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am.

I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington.

I don't care if I never see Texas again.

The Republic of Texas is no more.

Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.

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

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas.

I'm from East Texas, yes.

Texas people are very open, because it's open.

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.

Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas.

When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.'

When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.

In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'

Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.

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

I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.

I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

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.

To be beautiful in Texas, you had to be blonde and blue-eyed and have a name like Ann.

Everything I ever will be is because of Texas A&M University.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.

The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.

It's not hard to find a date if you are Jewish in New York and Miami, but its hard in Texas.

I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going.

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

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

My Longhorns are registered and I am a member of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association.

You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

I'm from Louisiana and live in Texas now.