Quotes About Texas

When I jump into something, I really do it to the fullest extent that my time and energy will allow me. I'm from Texas, and to see so many people that are obese and with disorders that are preventable. They haven't been shown or told. I'm really passionate about making sure my fellow countrymen are healthy. It's a shame.

I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.

Saying you're from Texas makes you kind of proud.

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

In Texas, it's legal for a kid to be in a bar with your parents.

Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am.

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems.

My Longhorns are registered and I am a member of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association.

I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas.

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.

In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.

After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.

President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.

Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.

We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.

The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.