George Strait Quotes

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.

George Strait

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

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Boy
  • Blood
  • Texas

• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • School
  • Reading
  • Year

• Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Eye
  • Friendship
  • Texas

• What was the first name of the Houston club? It wasn't the Astros. It was the Colt .45s. A lot of guys now will say Colt 45 is a beer. But it was also a pistol, and it went right with Texas.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Name
  • Texas
  • Beer

• I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Good
  • Free

• CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Texas
  • Court
  • Exhausted

• I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Life
  • Men
  • Country

• In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small.

  

  Halsey
  • Career
  • Small
  • City

• 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.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Men
  • Texas
  • Class

• When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • People
  • Tears
  • Smell

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

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Kid
  • Texas
  • Lived

• And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Work
  • Best
  • Texas

• After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Community

• The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Texas
  • Surprise
  • Leave

• My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • She
  • Texas

• Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.

  

  Dan Rather
  • She
  • Woman
  • Texas

• When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dreams of being an actress. Kids back home in Texas, who I thought were my friends, were saying things behind my back. They said that I would never make it because I wasn't talented or pretty enough to be on TV.

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Friends

• Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues.

  

  Chris Bell Big Star
  • Democracy
  • Texas

• We remain committed to the conference and fully anticipate that the Big 12 will honor its commitment to Texas A&M.

  

  R. Bowen Loftin
  • Honor
  • Commitment
  • Texas

• Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

  

  Chad Smith Chickenfoot
  • Serious

• I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Black
  • Hours
  • Tonight

• 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.

  

  George Strait
  • Texas