Texas Quotes

• 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
  • Work
  • Women
  • Country

• A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

  

  Brian Floca
  • Up
  • Great
  • Words

• I have no memories of my childhood in Texas. When I was about four, we moved to San Francisco. I was in the middle of seven brothers and sisters: three girls and four boys. Most of my older brothers and sisters got the blame for everything, and the little ones had a free ride. We loved each other but fought like cats and dogs.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Free
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever done science fiction shows. I was on 'Murder She Wrote,' I was on 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' I was on 'Jake and the Fat Man.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Done
  • She
  • Man

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

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Texas

• If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

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

  

  Artis Leon Ivey Jr.
  • Texas

• We ended up moving out to Texas. We live outside of Austin. We've got a couple horses, we've got three miniature donkeys, we've got four dogs. Miniature donkeys are very warm, loving animals.

  

  Kyle Chandler
  • Up
  • Live
  • Moving

• Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Fear

• Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• I've never seen 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', I've never seen 'Halloween', I've never seen any of the 'Friday the 13ths.'

  

  Lin Shaye
  • Texas
  • Friday
  • Halloween

• Minneapolis just embraced me. There are a lot of weirdos here. It's awesome, because I'm a weirdo. Thankfully, the city embraced me with open arms. A lot about Minneapolis helped carve my musicality and open my eyes. The whole town is so open-minded compared to like, you know, Texas.

  

  Lizzo
  • City
  • Eyes
  • Awesome

• 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

• 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.

  

  Kesha Rogers
  • Party
  • Texas

• Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Great
  • Texas

• At least 10 ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the border in Texas.

  

  Jeff Duncan
  • Texas

• I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • History
  • English
  • Texas

• I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's.

  

  John Lee Hancock
  • Up
  • Texas

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

  

  Jeri Ryan
  • Time
  • Texas

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

  

  J. Frank Dobie
  • America
  • Texas

• We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised.

  

  Alvin Lee
  • Peace
  • Texas

• New York is hard for me. I grew up in Texas. I can't do without my car, and you can't have a car in New York.

  

  Deanna Dunagan
  • Up
  • Car
  • Texas

• T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.

  

  Betty Buckley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.

  

  Debby Ryan
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

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