Texas Quotes

• Here's the thing about Texas - and the thing about the border. We all know undocumented immigrants. They sit in our churches, are friends with our children, and work all around us. They are just like us.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Work
  • Children
  • Friends

• If you like Texas and you like our economy, I helped create all that and all those jobs and you will love it when David Dewhurst goes to Washington.

  

  David Dewhurst
  • Texas

• For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Real
  • Insurance
  • Finance

• 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

• Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • City
  • Texas
  • Worth

• 'Welcome To New York' is one of those songs that, with just one single radio play, will make at least 10 New Yorkers move to Marfa, Texas.

  

  Nora Lum
  • Single
  • Texas

• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • She
  • Aunt

• I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Control

• Texas, to be respected, must be polite. Santa Anna, living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna, dead, would just be another dead Mexican.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Living
  • Mexican
  • Santa

• I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center's initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston's and Texas' continued growth.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Technology
  • Growth
  • inspirational

• For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

  

  Darrell Royal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Experience

• Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Future

• I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Up
  • Color
  • Beat

• The Texas thing is such a big deal because whenever I see Texas in a TV show, they always show slow-moving cattle and cowboys with the hats. I wanted to show that Texas isn't a stereotype.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Moving
  • Texas

• The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• I'm not a person who naturally loves to wake up in the morning and go 'Yeah, I'm going to work out for five hours - wooh!' Like, that's not my thing. I'm from Texas. I like to eat carbs. I like to chill out with my friends and do anything but 150 push-ups and sit-ups.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Up
  • Work
  • Friends

• As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • True
  • Education
  • Criticism

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

  

  Jay R. Ferguson
  • Family
  • Texas

• Here is a bulletin from CBS News: in Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Texas

• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Think
  • Dad

• I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

  

  Janine Turner
  • Proud
  • Texas
  • Ballet

• The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence - places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.

  

  Randy Falco
  • American
  • Culture
  • Influence

• Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

  

  Sam Houston
  • May
  • Learn
  • Oppression

• I love and respect the West - you can't live in Texas and not do that.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Live
  • Respect
  • Texas

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