Alamo Quotes

• Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Men
  • Story
  • Liberty

• I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Thinking
  • Alamo

• I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Book
  • Written
  • Alamo

• I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I'm a nutter. I don't think that's fair.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Alamo
  • Nutter

• Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Fall
  • Escaped
  • Alamo

• The story of the Alamo has touched many more people than one would think. So, I would like to pay my respects to those men on both sides of the walls in those months of February and March 1836.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Respect
  • Story
  • Pay

• Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.

  

  Tony Kornheiser
  • Football
  • Lasts
  • Levels

• There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Alamo
  • Big Stars