Texas Quotes

• I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country.

  

  Jesse Metcalfe
  • People
  • Country
  • May

• Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

  

  H. Beam Piper
  • Texas
  • Killing
  • Excess

• One of the issues that differentiates union members in Texas and the Northeast is guns. That's a big issue.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • Texas

• In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then spending some time on a large ranch outside Archer City. I was taken by just how few young people I saw anywhere.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

  

  John Gunther
  • Why
  • Texas

• When I moved to New York City from Texas at 22, amateur hour was over. As a newly grown-up person, I vowed I would wear dresses and skirts, wool trousers occasionally, and heels always.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Up
  • City
  • Texas

• I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.

  

  Haylie Duff
  • Texas
  • Way Of Life
  • Midwest

• My father is Nigerian; my mother is from Texas and African-American. My father was the first in his family to go to university. He flew from Nigeria to Los Angeles in the '70s to go to UCLA, where he met my mother. They broke up before I was born, and he returned to Nigeria.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Up
  • Family
  • American

• I guess you can't really turn a camera on outside in Texas without getting Terrence Malick comparisons.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Texas

• Everything I ever will be is because of Texas A&M University.

  

  John Sharp
  • Texas

• 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
  • Hope
  • Running
  • Single

• When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

  

  Jamie Foxx
  • Up
  • Different
  • Energy

• 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
  • Money
  • Amazing
  • California

• George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Texas

• 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
  • People
  • American
  • America

• I'm born and raised in Houston, Texas, but Wisconsin is always going to be a home for me, and I'll always be back.

  

  Donald Driver
  • Home
  • Texas

• Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

  

  George Strait
  • Band
  • Texas

• I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • California
  • New York
  • Texas

• I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

  

  Jim Evans
  • Texas

• The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Power
  • September
  • Hood

• I live on a ranch in Texas and do my own thing. And I don't care what anyone has to say about it. My joke is that the only people I'm trying to please are myself and my fans, because they're the ones buying my records. And I have the best, most loyal fan base ever.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they're afraid. They say, 'Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I'm scared. Please stop this from happening.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I saw that the incorporation of Texas into this Union would be indispensable both to her safety and ours. I saw that it was impossible she could stand as an independent power between us and Mexico without becoming the scene of intrigue of foreign powers, alike destructive of the peace and security of both Texas and ourselves.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • She
  • Power
  • Peace

• It's not hard to find a date if you are Jewish in New York and Miami, but its hard in Texas.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Texas

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