Texas Quotes

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!

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

I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.

If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.

English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.

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

Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.

I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

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.

When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.

When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.

All my ex's live in Texas, And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be, But all my ex's live in Texas, Therefore I reside in Tennessee

I've traveled all over the world, but I don't think there is any place better than Texas.

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

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

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

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

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

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.

According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.

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

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.

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!

Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with.

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

This is America. We’re entitled to our opinions.” “Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.

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.

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in California and mine is in Texas

Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or even Texas. It's coming from a place in Kansas called the Cosmosphere.

Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.

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.

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

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.

Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

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

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.