Texas Quotes
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While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
Calamity Jane -
My family is Chilean, and I was born there. By the time I was four, we were living in San Antonio, Texas, and I just remember picking a blue bonnet and getting yelled at by some guy with a sheriff hat and a badge. I was traumatized. He told me it was the state flower, and I wasn't supposed to be messin' with it.
Pedro Pascal
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One of the issues that differentiates union members in Texas and the Northeast is guns. That's a big issue.
Marc Veasey -
The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.
Carlos Alvarez -
I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go.
Wendy Davis -
I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.
Jesse Plemons -
I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.
Jim Evans -
I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons.
Warren Spector
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Margaret, Texas is lost.
Sam Houston -
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 -
There's something about Detroit, man: there's a serious vibe there. It could be that blue-collar, working-class-mentality person who lives out there. There's just something about it. It reminds me of Alaska. Texas has the same thing. Detroit is a little heavier than both.
John Gourley Portugal. The Man -
You set something in modern-day Texas, which is so identifiable as the Old West, and everyone's wearing guns, so it looks like it's going to be, by default, partially considered a western.
Taylor Sheridan -
I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.
Floyd Abrams -
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
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
Fran Lebowitz -
My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.
Kate Upton -
The East Texas accent is a famously difficult accent to do.
James Purefoy -
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.
George Strait -
Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.
Floyd Abrams -
George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.
Donella Meadows
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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 -
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 basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.
Krista Allen -
Texas really is the greatest state in the greatest nation. Texans - and women all over the country - deserve leaders that care, that listen, and that work to protect their interests.
Wendy Davis