Texas Quotes

I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.

I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.

By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.

Never forget, son, when you represent Texas, always go first class.

I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware that he knew I was in town.

At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.

Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.

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

You know what the bounty is on bin Laden? $25 million. It sounds like a lot until you realize the Texas Rangers paid $250 million to get Alex Rodriguez.

Is it me or is President Bush's life starting to sound like a country song. He's from Texas, his dog just died, and it looks like he might lose his job. Next thing, his truck is going to break down.

Scientists say that Texas and Antarctica were connected at one time. In fact, early Mexicans used to go through Texas to try to sneak into Antarctica.

I tried to log on to the Obamacare website today. I don't think I'm doing it right. I lost 300 bucks playing Texas Hold 'Em.

Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

I'm from Texas and actually went to a regular high school, but every day after school I'd run to dance class and practice a lot and then go back the next day and stuff like that.

I don't really watch movies at all. I don't even think I could name one. Maybe Texas Chainsaw Massacre? I think I've seen that, but I definitely don't have a favorite.

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.

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

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

Big news from last night's Republican debate, you guys. It turns out George Bush was actually the smart Texas governor.

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

Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.

If we can make Washington more like Texas, the whole country will be a winner.

I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

I am on the road all the time. Whether I'm in Paris or in a small college town in Texas, I can't tell the difference, and that's good. You don't have to leave where you were born to be cool anymore.

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

It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite.

Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.

I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.

In Dallas, life is a little slower. It's a little more day-to-day routine. It's just a simpler life. At the end of the day, I love Texas girls, and I kind of relate to them.

I try and eat good. On the road, that's next to impossible. And we eat a lot of unhealthy things when we're in Texas - that's what you do there.

Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards.

Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.

My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.

In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

Texas Democrats should be more concerned about what President Obama is doing to destroy the party, and the nation, than about what I am doing in going after him for that.

I'm not for the parties. I'm for Texas.

The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important.... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.

I want to fight the wussification of the State of Texas. I want to rise and shine and bring back the glory.

There will be a whole new spirit blowing through Texas. There will be a smile on everybody's face and a chill up the spine of every politician.

I don't see how the people who created the problem can fix it. Texas is worth fighting for, and the best way to fight is to get the politicians out of politics.

I want to be governor [of Texas] because I need the closet space.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right. If George is good at anything, it's timing.

Reba McEntire came through town when I lived in Texas. She had this amazing theatrical show with, like, 13 different wardrobe changes. I was eight and I was like, Wow, I wanna do that!

Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.

I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.

With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man."