Texas Quotes

• Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.

  

  Denton Cooley
  • Successful
  • Achievement
  • Greatest

• 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is just one of those movies that's like a page of history. You can't really go wrong. It's a prequel. It's not like number three. Which is really cool, to be the before as opposed to the after.

  

  Diora Baird
  • History
  • Cool
  • Texas

• One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was originally from Syracuse, N.Y., and lived in New Jersey but sang country. One night, she had me come up on stage where she was performing. I sang 'My Mother's Eyes,' and she was knocked out.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Up
  • Country
  • Home

• They're really competitive at drama in Texas.

  

  Lynn Collins
  • Drama
  • Texas

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

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Texas

• 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 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

• Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can't be adding to them yourself by saying you can only write in one specific place. I'm in New York half the time and Texas half the time, and I work wherever - in my computer bag I have some foam ear plugs that I can put in.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• There's no question about the fact that for Democrats, Texas is a tough place.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • Question
  • Texas

• When someone is running for reelection in Texas, they're not looking for votes in California or New York.

  

  Ezra G. Levin
  • New York
  • Votes
  • Reelected

• The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given a shot in the history of art.

  

  Clifford Ross
  • People
  • Art
  • History

• I am delighted to be here with you this evening, because after listening to George Bush all these years, I figured you needed to know what a real Texas accent sounds like.

  

  Ann Richards
  • Real
  • Listening
  • Texas

• Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Good
  • Education
  • Leader

• In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Texas

• It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

  

  Betty Buckley
  • Texas

• I was stationed in Turkey, Mexico City, South America, Texas, Arizona, so I do know where the Mexican-U.S. border is.

  

  Joe Arpaio
  • America
  • City
  • Mexican

• 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
  • Car
  • Texas

• A fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.

  

  Lloyd Bentsen
  • Texas

• I will say, I'm a great, great, great grandson of Stephen F. Austin. He founded Austin, Texas, which is kind of cool.

  

  Jesse Plemons
  • Great
  • Cool
  • Grandson

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

  

  Jeri Ryan
  • Time
  • Texas

• I didn't know much about Texas when I moved there for graduate school. In my first or second semester, I took a class in life and literature of the Southwest, and that's where I first heard about these events along the border in 1915-1918, what Anglos called the Bandit Wars.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Life
  • School
  • Literature

• 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.

  

  Lee Ann Womack
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I never seen anybody from Texas I couldn't shade. Get cross-ways of me, LaBoeuf, and you will think a thousand of brick has fell on you. You will wisht you had been at the Alamo with Travis.

  

  Charles Portis
  • Texas

• A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.

  

  J. Frank Dobie
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • Texas

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