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Quotes About Texas

From Texas to New Hampshire and everywhere in between, we know that support for policies such as expanded background checks continue to be popular in both parties.
~ Gabrielle Giffords
I'm from Texas. You would think my biggest draw would be in that state. But my biggest draw is Pennsylvania.
~ Bill Engvall
I'm a Texas girl.
~ Hayley Orrantia
Texas was home. We went to Anchorage to get rich in 1959. Someone told us, 'If you drive a nail, you could make $100 a day in construction work.' We were hungry, and we stayed there for a year and a half. But I never did plan to stay there - the same with Nashville. I was gonna go up there and work, but Texas was home.
~ Johnny Gimble
My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
~ Robert Woodrow Wilson
The states that have large in-migrations of Hispanics are Florida, Texas and California. And Florida and Texas are way above average in educational achievement, while California's the lowest, just about.
~ Arthur Laffer
There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.
~ Katee Sackhoff
It's important for Republicans to nominate someone who not only has a vision of how to create jobs, but who has done it. That's why I am endorsing Texas Governor Rick Perry for President.
~ Sam Graves
I think, in Washington, getting things for the great people of Texas done is an important job.
~ Michael McCaul
I never had naming rights at Texas Stadium.
~ Jerry Jones
I felt like the luckiest kid in the world because God had put me on the ground in Texas. I actually felt sorry for those poor little kids that had to be born in Oklahoma or England or some place. I knew I was living in the best place in the world.
~ Tommy Lee Jones
Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.
~ Katha Pollitt
Here's the deal on Texas. It's big. So big, there's about five distinct and different places here, separated from one another geologically, topographically, botanically, ethnically, culturally, and climatically.
~ Molly Ivins
I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.
~ Dimebag Darrell
I love how confident she is, plus we also come from the same hometown, Houston, Texas. Her name is Beyonce Knowles. I love her so, so, so much. I love how hard she works.
~ Normani Kordei
It really was an amazing thing when Midlake brought me down to Texas and created an atmosphere in which I felt really safe and was able to do whatever I wanted artistically.
~ John Grant
I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also to prove your manhood. They all couldn't conceive of why I'd want to stop to do 'The Importance of Being Earnest.'
~ Powers Boothe
Texas is a pretty free state.
~ Isaac Hanson
At least 10 ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the border in Texas.
~ Jeff Duncan
The ability of Texas Republicans to be effective in Congress is based on having at least 218 Republicans in the House.
~ Bill Flores
Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
~ Sam Graves
Texas is generally 82 degrees year round. I always tell people you don't know cold until you have been to Boston.
~ Marcus Luttrell
I travel all over the country, all over the world, and I'm happy to call Texas home.
~ Jimmy Walker
Texas has more effectively capitalized on its opportunities as a border state, and I've always said that I want to look to states that are doing better than we are and replicate those success stories in Arizona.
~ Doug Ducey