Quotes About Texas

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

I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.

There's a lot of culture vultures out there taking our culture down here in Texas.

I'm a pretty private person. I live in Texas, and I like my small network.

We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy. The politicians in charge of Texas now clearly don't. Perry has refused to even consider expanding health care coverage in Texas because he cares more about scoring political points than he does about our Texas families.

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

I started a newspaper business in North Texas and I started a quinceanera media company... so when I wanted to get into broadcasting I started my own television pilot. That led to years of free work but I was never afraid to just do it and go to people with the power to say yes to breakthrough.

Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

I got southern roots from Texas all the way to Louisiana, went to Grambling State back in the day, my whole career I've done songs with down South artists.

When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.'

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.

I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.

While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide this essential care. In 2008, 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider.

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.

If you go to any elementary school classroom in Texas, some kids in there are going to be named either Austin, Dallas or Houston.

You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack.

One day, it just dawned on me that I'm from Texas, and that's what I am.

Texas is still resistant to Howard Johnsons, interstate highways and some forms of phoniness. It is the place least likely to become a replica of everyplace else. It's authentically awful, comic, and weirdly charming, all at the same time.

I'm super laid back. I'm from Texas. I love my family.

The records in the house I really remember were, well, Glen Campbell's 'Wichita Lineman' and 'Galveston.' Even as a kid, I knew these songs were glorious. My dad also had records by Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Waylon Jennings, and then there was also the Eagles and Don Henley. Anything Texas, which includes Don Henley, was big.

My favorite films are 'Paris, Texas' and 'Repo Man.'